Prayer: Forgiving Lord, help us to be reconciled with our brothers and sisters. Our anger separates us from each other and from you. Make us one in spirit so then we can offer each other and you our best. Amen
Reading: Matthew 5: 21-27 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: Seems as soon as people divide into distinct groups for whatever reason (too often an angry one), the next thing you know, the differing groups divide again among themselves. It simply is not possible for everyone to agree on everything and left to that, everyone ends up alone and lonely anyway. Well, in a way, we are alone. We are each individual and unique children of God. We simply are not going to look, think, act, work, play, worship or anything exactly alike. So, it's either be reconciled or be lonely. In being reconciled to each other, we go from lonely individuals to a community of God's children giving our best to each other and to God. --Ruth Gates
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