Prayer: Provider, savior, and ultimate caregiver, thank you for everything I have ever had and will ever had. May I remember to be grateful. Amen.
Reading: Numbers 11:4-6 (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: For my mother’s 75th birthday, we ordered live lobsters from our Williamsport seafood vendor (call out to Helmrich’s for coming in special on a Monday morning!). When we lived in New England, fresh seafood was no big deal, something to pick up from roadside vendors along the Maine coastline. I know of a girl whose dad was a lobsterman through the ‘70s and ‘80s; as an adult, she vowed never to eat that “leftover” again. And, if you know your American history you may have read how the early English settlers dubbed this plentiful sea-bug the “poor man’s protein.” Isn’t it amusing how fickle our pleasures can be? It’s worth remembering that God’s love for us never gets old. Try to look around your world today and see things with a fresh eye. [Go ahead, sing the “funky fresh” version of Kumbaya, too!] --Heather Wolf
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