Every Sunday we pray that the Kingdom might come and then when it does, we sometimes miss it because it is a place of surprises. One time when Jesus was describing the Kingdom to his friends he said that the confident should not be so sure of themselves. He said that in the Kingdom the last will be first and the first will be last. And he told them that people will come from east and west and from north and south and take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. What a glorious surprise for a world fractured by geography, politics, economics and race. (more…)