Greetings!
Thank you for joining us in prayer and reflection during this season of Lent. We will travel through daily scripture, reflection and prayer. Additional people have been joining us each day. Please feel free to forward these reflections to others. We invite you to explore the other resources for the season found at the bottom of the page as we continue the journey together. Christian Formation Commission |
God wanted to show his anger and reveal his power against everyone who deserved to be destroyed. But instead, he patiently put up with them. He did this by showing how glorious he is when he has pity of the people he has chosen to share in his glory. Whether Jews or Gentiles, we are those chosen ones, just as the Lord says in the book of Hosea,
"Although they are not my people, I will make them my people. I will treat with love those nations that have never been loved. Once they were told, 'You are not my people.' But in that very place they will be called children of the living God"
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When I was a child and said I hated something or someone, my mother would always say, " You must love ____, because without love you can't know about hate." Now that I read this I see that she was speaking for God.
All humans have the capability to both get angry and forgive the ones they love. But, can we love those who we don't know... those we consider unlike us? If we can at least begin to acknowledge them, we will be taking a step closer to being more Christ-like during this season of Lent. We will never get there, until hate and enemies are no longer words in our vocabulary.
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Prayer
Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart...that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being healed we may live isn justice and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayer for Social Justice, BCP p. 823 |
