Prayer: Life-giving God, guide us with your spirit. May we see a vision of you at work around us and may we use our imaginations to be your hands in the world. Our faith sings of your power. Amen
Reading: Ezekiel 37: 1-14 (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: The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of... These are the words of the prophet in the beginning of the 37th chapter of Ezekiel. Having read it you know he was set down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. The vision goes on to tell of God's life-giving power in the reassembling and restoring of dead, dry bones to life. Use your imagination to picture that. We are in days of needing to use our imaginations to live life with hope for ourselves and for others. From the vision of the valley of dry bones, African American slaves created the spiritual "Dem Bones", freeing their imagination and helping their faith sing of God's life-giving power. We still thing their song today. Now imagine the hand of the LORD upon you. Because, it is. Where is the spirit taking you? What are you being set down in the middle of? What do you see? What is your vision of God's life-giving power? How does it help your faith sing? -- Ruth Gates
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