Prayer: Shepherding God, as we begin our days with you, we are reassured your goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our lives. Amen
Reading: Psalm 23 (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: This is probably the most popular of all the Psalms. Many people have it memorized. Great composers have set it to music. The message of this Psalm is so reassuring: goodness, mercy and comfort are ours always, even in the darkest times. When at church camp (Camp Hope in New Jersey), we would have early morning Tryst before breakfast. We would sit by the lake and have our own private time of meditation. I would look across the lake and see a hillside pasture with cattle and think, “How peaceful.” We need more peaceful time. We need to go back to the lake and its calming waters. We need to surround ourselves and our fellow “campers’’ and neighbors with God’s reassuring love. --Alice Yeakel
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