Send Us
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
to deliver us all.
As We Get to Reflect Christ’s Light
to Strangers and Friends Alike.
Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
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Luke 24:46-47
Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
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Words of Grace for Today –
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Psychology professor Gillian Sandstrom was a lonely graduate student in Toronto when she … and a woman who ran a hotdog stand on her way to university around 2007 would wave hello and smile at each other. Their interactions were so small that Sandstrom uses air quotes to even describe them as a “relationship.”
And yet “it really meant something much bigger than it seemed like it should, and it made me feel like I belonged there,” said Sandstrom.
From https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/micro-relationships-and-talking-to-strangers-1.7636486?cmp=newsletter_CBC%20Edmonton_1646_2029080
In the drudgery and loneliness of life God finds us.
Most often God uses another person, intentionally reaching out to us,
and even more often another person unintentionally reaching us
exactly where it hurts so much we barely can describe the pain.
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Psychology professor Gillian Sandstrom was a lonely graduate student in Toronto when she began what she calls “a tiny, tiny micro-relationship.”
Today there is a whole surge of people recommending that interacting with strangers is exactly what we are missing in the technology driven and ‘stranger danger’ driven world we’ve created.
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In the drudgery and loneliness of life God finds us
and sends us out to share the Good News, even with strangers.
We need not start, nor should we start by mentioning Jesus’ name or forgiveness or sacrifice and atonement for sins, or even sins.
We start by being the saints God makes us, acknowledging, sharing, addressing, listening, smiling, thanking the stranger for being.
In that interaction God will bless them, and us,
and maybe we will have opportunity to demonstrate and explain that Jesus makes us possible to be
today’s saints
just a bit
for
them.
