Prayer: Dear God, help us make good choices and learn from our mistakes. Thank you for your love and mercy always. Amen
Reading: Deuteronomy 30: 15-20 (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: Choices. Somewhere along the way in either education or parenting or both, the phrase, "Make good choices." became the way to bring about best behavior. "Make good choices." If I heard it once I heard it a thousand times. If I said it once, I said it a thousand times! Then I heard a parent tell their child, "Make good choices. Learn from your mistakes." I had to laugh and think and laugh some more (and think again). Because obviously good choices are the way to go but everyone makes mistakes and there has to be some sort of way to come back around from that. Deuteronomy 30: 15-20 spells out what a good choice and a bad choice would be and the consequences of each. And in true Old Testament form, the consequences are either extremely good or extremely bad. We are going to make both kinds of choices and deal with both kinds of consequences but hopefully not always to such extremes. Learning from mistakes would point us in the right direction again. --Ruth Gates
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