Prayer: To you, O Lord, we lift our prayers. Guide us as we trust your path for us. Thank you for your steadfast love and faithfulness. May we find our joy in you. Amen
Reading: Psalm 25: 1-10 (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 live in a town with miles and miles of hiking trails that weave through hills, neighborhoods, wetlands, wooded areas, and fields. One of my favorite sections starts at the bottom of a big hill. You can take one trail pretty much straight up or the other that switchbacks to the top. There you are rewarded with a beautiful view. Continuing on, the trail leads through a forest, over a creek, past a pond, along the side of a field that often has horses and then to my favorite part – the Peaceful Pines. At least, that’s what I call them. It is the furthest out point of this particular trail but well worth the long hike for the moments in the shelter of that grove of tall pines that seem to whisper in the wind overhead. Psalm 25 talks of the paths of our lives. Make me known to your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees. (v. 4, 10) I think about that as I choose which uphill trail to take – head on or the long way. I think about that as I pass through and by all the different sights and scenes along the way. But mostly I find myself praying in the pines. Quieting my heart to hear God in the stillness of my heart. I find myself smiling. What part of following God’s path gives you the most joy? --Ruth Gates
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