Prayer: Dear God, fill our minds with your Spirit which cannot be contained. Lead us to share your love in our everyday lives. Amen
Reading: Romans 8: 6-11 (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: Set your mind on things of the Spirit; not on things of the flesh. Spiritual thoughts cannot be bottled or put in a box. Joy, sorrow, laughter, comfort, loneliness are felt but cannot be contained. Yes, there are tangibles that can bring on these feelings: children singing, a painful loss, friends sharing cookies after school, cup of hot tea on a cold evening, goodbyes. Notice even these tangibles are more about relationships with people than the things involved. God wants our minds to be filled with things of the Spirit. Love, concern, respect, understanding - things which cannot be be packaged nor meant to be stored on a shelf. They are to be shared with each other through prayer and the way we lead our everyday lives. Be filled to overflow. -- Alice Yeakel
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