Prayer: We praise you, God, for the earth’s bounty and for Camp Mount Luther. Hear us as we shout and sing together for joy. Amen.
Reading: Psalm 65: 1-13 (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: Psalm 65 is titled, Thanksgiving for Earth’s Bounty. This summer of missing being at Camp Mount Luther (Though one can spend time there by day or even stay for a few. Contact the camp office for more info.), I decided to write a Psalm of CML Thanksgiving for Camp’s Bounty. Praise to you, O God, in all the world and especially at Camp Mount Luther. To you songs will be sung and prayers spoken, and you will answer! To you campers will come – in person or in spirit. When we are overwhelmed, you are with us and love us. Happy are we when we gather and live in your creation. We are content in the goodness of your home, your holy mountain. Bring us to high places in our hearts. Your awesome deeds deliver us and save us. You are our hope wherever we are; near or far. Your strength is seen in the steadfast mountains around us, silencing the storm with a rainbow, quieting your people with awe. Mornings begin and evenings end with shouts for joy – birdsong, croaking bullfrogs, katydids and crickets calling, wind through the trees. Come and enrich this place and your people; water the land; feed us. All we need comes from you. Bless all that grows at Camp Mount Luther, and all that grows in us because we have been there and carry it everywhere. Bring us back to see your bounty and richness, the wilderness and the fields girded with joy, the leaping deer and fawns, the turtle slow and steady, the eagle soaring above. We shout together and sing for joy! --Ruth Gates
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