Prayer: Dear God, we do not always know everything that is going on. Sometimes we are taken by surprise by news. Keep us in your grace and peace. Help us to carry through. Amen
Reading: Mark 6: 14-29 (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: King Herod had heard of Jesus. His name had become known. Some were saying John the Baptist had been raised from the dead. Wait! What? When did John the Baptist die? What just happened? The rest of our reading goes into the details - the gory details - of what happened. Yes, John the Baptist was dead. By orders of the King, schemed by a resentful person, grieving the King and leaving John’s disciples to lay his body in a tomb. Yes, that’s what just happened and what disciples did. Taken by surprise, news can be unsettling. Getting filled in on the details may not make it any better. May God keep us in grace and peace whatever happens. May we be the disciples who carry through. --Ruth Gates
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