Prayer: Dear God, just when we think all we need to do is ask and receive, it happens that we don’t. Thank you for the reminder that sometimes it is because we are asking wrongly. Thank you even more that love always come. Amen
Reading: James 3: 13 – 4: 3, 7-8a (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: Seek and ye shall find, Knock and the door shall be opened, Ask and it shall be given And the love comes a’tricklin down. That’s a song I sang as a child. It was encouraging. It sounded like a guarantee of all things good. Children love that; as do adults. So we were taught it by the grown-ups and we sang it a lot. Our text today from James, however, reminds us that sometimes we don’t get what we ask for. So, going back to the song I guess it would be good to realize that we seek but what we find but it might not be what we thought we were looking for. We knock and the door will open but there is no telling what may be on the other side. We ask and something will be given even if not what was expected. So, the song is still true and this is most certainly true. Love comes a’tricklin down. --Ruth Gates
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