Prayer: Comforting God, we bring to you our hurts and sorrows. We will rejoice in you as you care for us always. Amen
Reading: Isaiah 66: 10-14 (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: List comfort foods and we might all come up with a few of the same. Think of comfortable places to sit or rest and I know a few (Camp Staff in particular) who would pick hammocks. Consider who you turn to for comforting words and many would answer friends. Long before the idea of friend became a concept of social media with us seemingly having more friends than ever before possible, there was an old hymn, What a Friend We Have in Jesus...all ours sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry, everything to God in prayer. I leaned on a friends after church today. Even asked them for prayer. Yet, I knew that in the hour before that, there was comfort and rejoicing as I worshiped. Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior still our refuge - Take it to the Lord in prayer. -- Ruth Gates
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