Prayer: Dear God, show us where there is need and help us find ways to provide. Amen
Reading: Matthew 10:45 (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: As I walk the couple blocks to the parking lot at the end of my work day, I begin to look forward to dinner. I’m usually already a bit hungry but I know I can wait until I get home. Though sometimes, I will eat something. Like an apple leftover from my lunch. Some days there is a line out front of a building just a block or so beyond where I park and walking away are people with styrofoam box in hand. Must be a soup kitchen; dinner for those in need. Coming toward the parking lot one evening was a man with a bike and his styrofoam box in a plastic bag hanging from the handlebars. I thought to myself how good it will be for him to ride home and have his dinner. But he stopped. There. In the middle of the parking lot. Opened up his dinner and started eating. Was he that hungry he could not wait? Or did he not have a home to go to? As I got in my car to drive home, I realized I was not that hungry. I wished I had an apple though, to add to someone’s dinner. --Ruth Gates
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