Jon 2:13-22

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John 2:13-22 

13The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16He told those who were selling the doves, 'Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!' 17His disciples remembered that it was written, 'Zeal for your house will consume me.' 18The Jews then said to him, 'What sign can you show us for doing this?' 19Jesus answered them, 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.' 20The Jews then said, 'This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?' 21But he was speaking of the temple of his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

Think

The Passover was appoaching and Jesus went to the temple and told them that they needed to be remodeled.
I know that this is simplified and that this is not a joke but I also think that we get our desire to remodel our surroundings when something has changed inside of us.  A few friends of mine are "nesting" in preparation for a baby, others have moved to bigger digs after gettng married or moving on to a new level of committement to one another, others have moved to smaller homes when they retired, or their children moved out or if a relationship ended and they no longer need that large of a space, but the truth is that there are some things that change when the internal landscape changes.
IN Jesus' case the internal change came when he was baptized - he had alreayd been to the temple and it didn't bother him as a child or a teenager but when we went back after he was baptized he saw things differently  
When was the last time I saw things differently?

Pray 
help me to see things the way they are meant to be seen not to be seen the way they always have been seen.  Amen

Contemplate
Sick nap on the couch probably if I can stay awake for centering prayer I will be pleased.