But this is not the way of Jesus; He insists on stopping. I am sure they had somewhere to be, a schedule to keep. But Jesus insists on stopping to notice the person who did not want to be noticed, to see the person who thought she was invisible.
You see dissonance is when who I am no longer lines up with who I had hoped to be or how I hope others see me. It happens so often and so subtly that most of the time you and I don’t even realize it’s going on. We all know that major dissonance (or compromise) doesn’t crop up overnight. It starts small. So small that we might not recognize it in ourselves or want to acknowledge it. This morning we’re going to open to the Book of James, chapter one.