Prayer: God, my loving creator, you bestow on all the earth everything needed. Open my eyes and heart to share the abundance you’ve provided. Ease my mind when I fret needlessly about the future. Help me to let you lead and trust in your care. Amen.
Reading: Psalm 104 (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: Those of you who know me well may have noticed I sketch a flower by my signature on personal notes and correspondences. I began doing this in the ‘80s, shorthand for a mantra I’d adopted -- have faith in flowers. Scriptures like this psalm directed me to replace my tendency to fret about future uncertainties and things I could not control and to instead “Let go. Let God.” When I look around at the wonder of life, the vast miracle of life on this planet, and consider all of the challenges working against things even existing, my faith in a conscious creator surge. I think of the old Sunday School song, “My God is So Big, so Great and Almighty; there’s nothing my God cannot do, for you!” Seriously, the birds feed on seeds that drop from flowers planted and pollinated by other creatures and the wind. Those flowers manage to grow up against every hardship imaginable, eventually splitting a rock in two to make way for the plants sprouting forth. Humanity, beloved of God and created in his/her own image, surely, must be provided for by its loving, almighty parent. So why do we fret about things, having enough? Surely not because God failed to provide. If only we could live in sync with His plan, then His will truly could be enjoyed on earth, as it is in heaven… --Heather LeBlanc
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