Prayer: Lord, you are our rock. May we remember to look to you for refuge and to transform our communities by how we live in trust and hope. Amen
Reading: Psalm 71: 1-6 (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: I came back from Family Camp with a rock in my pocket. That happens a lot. Sometimes it's a pretty rock found along a path. More often it is a rock that had been used as an object lesson or to be a reminder of something learned at Camp. This year we each found a small stone, wrote our initials on it and dropped the stones into a bowl of water watching the rings of ripples made. The theme of the summer was Transforming Communities. We pondered how our impact continues to radiate out and also saw that many rocks dropped at once creates a big splash! At the end of the week, our rocks were there for us to take home and now had a cross drawn on the other side to remind us of God's grace and our salvation through Jesus. Ironically when I returned to work, a co-worker, who had recently gone to a craft show gave me a polished stone with a face painted on it. She said it was made by a mystic fortune teller (who also does group parties!). Psalm 71: 3 reminds us (LORD) Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. I think I will stick with my rock from Camp. -- Ruth Gates
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