Isaiah 54:10: Though the mountains leave their place and the hills be shaken, my love shall never leave you nor my covenant of peace be shaken, says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Today’s reflection is brief to give us the opportunity to explore the life of Paul Farmer.
It is difficult to imagine that the Alps or the Andes or the Himalayan Mountains might leave their place and yet with God’s mercy they do.
When we place all hope in God, massive obstacles are overcome.
When we move through our days in Christ’s faith, immense disabilities are re-mediated.
When we act in the Spirit’s love, impossible circumstances melt away.
God’s overpowering love moves the mountains in our lives when we act in God’s unlimited mercy. God’s covenant with us is eternal. Let us remain faithful to God and to the promises we make.
A re-post from July 16, 2012.
Images from: http://destinationtravels999.blogspot.com/2012/03/beautiful-alps-mountainsswitzerland-hd.html
Dr. Paul Farmer has refused to bow to overwhelming odds and Tracey Kidder tells us the details of a portion of his story in his book Mountains Beyond Mountains. For more details on an interview with Kidder on NPR go to: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1472188
For more on how Farmer provides a preferential health care option for the poor, go to: http://www.pih.org/publications/entry/partner-to-the-poor-a-paul-farmer-reader/
Farmer died in 2022. For more on his life, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Farmer or Harvard’s Memorial Minute at: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://fa.hms.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum4521/files/2025-05/Memorial%20Minute.Farmer%2C%20Paul%20E._0.pdf
The Noontimes 