Lectionary passage: Luke 12:49-53 (NRSV) - "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 53 they will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
What irony to hear the Prince of Peace declare that he
had come to bring not peace on earth but just disharmony,
and those in the same house would be divided over him.
To people who believed in him this must have sounded grim,
but what he said has happened. Will the conflict never cease?
Must there still be division as regards the Prince of Peace?
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