Tag: God’s Love Letter

• 1 & 2 Chronicles: Our Sacred History – Part VI

  
  

  1 & 2 Chronicles: Our Sacred History – Part VI

  Thursday, June 1, 2023

  A Prayer in celebration of our story

  We have read about the women and men who bring us an accounting of the rise and fall of the human journey along God’s Way. We see the acts and hear the thoughts of those who are willing to share their experiences – both the ugly and the beautiful – of their encounters with the Living God. Today we reflect on all that we have learned as we pray.

  Singular and gathering God, we know that you are the beginning and end of our faith. We realize this in your Alpha and Omega presence in Christ among us.

  Patient and persistent God, we see that you are the form and substance of all hope that is true and everlasting. We see this in all of creation that constantly strives to return to you.

  Healing and transforming God, we understand that nothing matters and no one exists in a world without your Law of Love. We experience this mercy and forgiveness in the goodness that you pull from each harm that we commit or have done unto us.

  Teach us to also forgive. Lead us always into the light. Protect us from all that would obliterate us. Love us into your goodness. Bring us your truth. Counsel us in your healing and nurturing way. Re-tell us the stories of our shared and sacred history. Shelter us in the warmth of your embrace. And keep us always ever close to you. Amen.

  The two books of Chronicles have four major portions that show us very human leaders; they illustrate the rise and fall of a people and nation. These verses tell us how division and exile can lead to forgiveness and return. Our sacred history shows us how we will want to learn to replace pride with humility. Our shared story guides us in moving from fear to love. These holy stories are treasures we will want to examine often, and share with the world.

  For more on this amazing story, enter the words God’s Love Letter into the blog search bar and explore.

  Images from: http://www.slideshare.net/anion/gods-love-story-2259081 and https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/finger-paint-texture

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  June 1, 2023

  Alpha and Omega, God’s Love Letter, Law of Love, The Living God, The Way

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• Psalms 119:25-32: God’s Yardstick – The Law

  
  

  Psalms 119:25-32: God’s Yardstick – The Law

  God’s Love Letter

  Monday, January 16, 2023

  In these opening days of a new year, we have looked at women in scripture who see and use God’s yardstick in their lives. Over the next few days we explore how we find God’s yardstick in both Old and New Scripture.

  We have spent a number of reflections with this psalm, the longest of the 150 songs of sorrow, praise, joy, petition and lament. Two winters ago we spent several weeks examining each of the poem’s stanzas that begin with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. As we concluded we decided that this psalm was an intense love letter from God to us. When we look at all the psalms, and this one in particular, we discover a yardstick that can only come from God, a yardstick that measures both the highs and lows of our days. A yardstick that offers forgiveness, healing, redemption and joy.

  I’m feeling terrible—I couldn’t feel worse!
      Get me on my feet again. You promised, remember?
  On the days when we feel we can go no further, we must remember to take our woes to God.

  When I told my story, you responded;
      train me well in your deep wisdom.
  On the days when we find it difficult to gather strength, we remember to ask God for help.

  Help me understand these things inside and out
       so I can ponder your miracle-wonders.
  On the days when we forget the wisdom God has shared with us, we remember to ask again.

  My sad life’s dilapidated, a falling-down barn;                                                                         build me up again by your Word.                                                                                         On the days when we see no way past the heavy obstacle before us, we remember to rest in God.

  Barricade the road that goes Nowhere;                                                                                        grace me with your clear revelation.                                                                                  During the nights when doubts and fears return, we remember that with    God all things are possible.

  I choose the true road to Somewhere,
      I post your road signs at every curve and corner.                                                           During the nights when we are restless and alone, we remember that Christ is constantly within.

  I grasp and cling to whatever you tell me;
      God, don’t let me down!                                                                                                          During the nights when we are desperate for peace, we remember that the Spirit heals and comforts.

  I’ll run the course you lay out for me
      if you’ll just show me how.                                                                                                     During the days and nights when we struggle with the world, we read and re-read God’s love letter to us, and remember that we are made by God for and with and in love alone.

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  Enter the words God’s Love Letter into the blog search bar for other reflections about Psalm 119. This ancient prayer from ancient scripture continues to serve us today as God’s yardstick. Tomorrow, we find God’s measure of love in the person of Jesus. 

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  January 16, 2023

  comfort, doubt, fear, God’s Love Letter, healing, Psalm 119, strength, wisdom

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