Prayer: Eternal God, thank you for sending us your spirit. Help us to listen to it and follow your will. Be with us today. Amen. (from the Moravian Daily Text – May 23, 2021)
Reading: Romans 8: 22-27 (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: I am glad the Spirit intercedes when I do not know how or what to pray. I am even more glad to know the Spirit intercedes according to the will of God. Perhaps I should be listening, too. What would I hear to do? I have been listening to a particular song quite a bit lately. It speaks of a voice calling to take the step and say, “Hello.” While I was always one to smile as I passed a person, I have realized smiles are hard to see under a mask. I now say, “Hello” now along with smiling. I may not always know how or what to pray. I may not always know God’s will. But I do know saying, “Hello” has brought to me and to others, smiles that can be seen even under masks. Perhaps that song was the Spirit interceding. “Hello!” --Ruth Gates
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