You Have Clothed Me in Joy – Dec. 8, 2022
Then you changed my despair into a dance –you stripped me of my death shroudand clothed me with joy. -Psalm 30:12, The Inclusive Bible
You Preside – Oct. 21, 2022
You preside over all our comings and goings, all our wealth and all our poverty, all our sickness and all our health, all our despair and all our hope, all our living and all our dying. And we are grateful. You are God of all of our impossibilities. You have presided over the emancipations and […]
Grace and Impatience – Oct. 19, 2022
In our secret yearningswe wait for your coming,and in our grinding despairwe doubt that you will.And in this privileged placewe are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do weand by those who despair more deeply than do we.Look upon your church and its pastorsin this season of hopewhich runs so quickly to fatigueand in […]
Deliver Me from Faint-heartedness – Oct. 12, 2022
O Holy Spirit, Give me faith that will protect me from despair, from passions, and from vice; Give me such love for God and men as will blot out all hatred and bitterness; Give me hope that will deliver me from fear and faint-heartedness. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. 140
