Two things that stood out to me this time through the lectionary:

1) How badly people want to be able to tell the future.

2) How we think of our impact on the world as something so permanent, yet one day “not one stone will be left upon another.” Our small group reflected on the fact that, other than our church building and a few others, most of the people that lived in 1905 San Francisco would not recognize ANY of it today–it’s all gone.