Prayer: Our Father, thank you for hearing us pray to you. Thank you for being my shepherd. We are and I am not alone at all. Amen
Reading: Psalm 23 (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: Social distancing, quarantine, and isolation. Such a feeling of being alone yet together in what we are doing for the health and safety of ourselves AND each other. When we pray the Lord's Prayer, we say, OUR Father because we know God is the Father of everyone. Continue praying and notice the word US the rest of the way through. We know we are not alone in our prayers or in our lives. Not alone at all. Psalm 23, on the other hand, is in the first person. MY shepherd...I shall not be in want...makes ME lie down...restores MY soul.... This Psalm speaks to each of us alone. Yet we are not alone as we have a shepherd. We are not alone as we are many sheep. Not alone at all. Pray. Read. Know we are doing it both alone and together. OUR Father; MY shepherd - with us; with you. Amen -- Ruth Gates
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