Prayer: Dear God, we pray for a continual transformation of our communities through your forgiveness. Thank you for your compassionate forgiveness that transformed the world through your son Jesus. May we learn to forgive others, as you have forgiven us. Amen.
Reading: Psalm 103:1-14 (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: At camp this summer we have been learning about how to transform out communities with radical generosity, inclusion, compassion, justice, and forgiveness. To do so, we must renew our minds and think Christ-like! This passage was listed as an alternative text to our day on forgiveness, but I just LOVE it because it also mentions God’s radical compassion and justice as well! When we think and act Christ-like communities are transformed when they see how different God’s view is from what may be happening in the world. During week 7 of our camp summer I was at an off-site day camp, and the campers loved playing with bubbles. They would scatter them through the air and quickly run and jump to pop them! Bubbles are magical in that way, they disappear into thin air so there is no trace remaining. This is like God’s radical forgiveness! Everyone has moments where they mess up, but when we forgive others and God forgives us, all worries can magically go away- just like the bubbles! “…as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us,” the bubbles have be popped, and we worry no more. --Anne Harshbarger
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