Prayer: Dear God, you remind us of your presence day and night. We praise you always. Amen
Reading: Ephesians 4: 25 – 5: 2 (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 just wrote a GROW Time devotion about the Psalmist praising the Lord all day long and how birdsong reminds me of that. But what about at the end of the day when the world becomes quiet. The birds stop their singing. It is dark. Sometimes thoughts of the day come back around in the stillness and sometimes those thoughts are not always of praise. Our text from Ephesians reminds us, “Do not let the sun go down on your anger.” (Ephesians 4: 26b) It was late in the evening as I finished that writing about birds and praise. I went to bed still thinking how to keep praise in my heart and how to keep unsettled thoughts out of my mind. Then, in the quiet of the night what did I hear? An owl. A comforting sound somewhere in the distance and right in my soul I knew peace. Praise day and night. Blessings to remind us God is near. --Ruth Gates
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