The readings at this time of year cover Jesus' miracles and teaching. This is where we meet the Jesus of the every day, the Jesus of farmers and fisherman, who told stories of lost sheep, a man beaten up by the roadside, a ponsy landowner, fishers of men, treasure buried in a field, seed sown by the wayside, or, as in today's gospel, where he uses familiar themes to talk to the crowd, like laying proper foundations when you are building a tower. Our God is a God of the people, not in far off Jerusalem, but walking every day through the fields, and along the shores, of Galilee.

PIcture above: the leaning tower of the church of Santa Eugenia, Nerellá in Lleida province, believed to be older than the leaning tower of Pisa.