Yearning
To Make It Right
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Not All Life In ‘Dinghies’ Involves Life Jackets and Singing Joyfully,
OR Might It Best Be So?
Leviticus 19:18
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord.
Luke 10:33-34
But a Samaritan while travelling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
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Words of Grace For Today
Yearning, Working For Our Dreams …
and hopefully Giving Thanks.
We yearn and long to make life right for ourselves.
If we are at all alert to the reality of life we yearn and long to make life right for others as well.
Covid vaccines are a great example. If just the privileged receive vaccines the virus continues to spread among those who have no vaccines, and it mutates, and it spreads to even those who are vaccinated. We are in the same boat, but not really. Some are in luxury yachts, others in sturdy ocean going vessels, some in small dinghies and so many others hanging on to pieces of flotsam, hoping for rescue! But the virus spreads quickly, efficiently from the flotsam and dinghies to the luxury yachts and sturdy vessels.
So we hope we will work not for vengeance, but for love of neighbours all, even offering what we cannot easily give, as the Samaritan does the man robbed and left to die. One can ask, is it this Samaritan, a relative, or a friend, who contracts leprosy and then is healed by Jesus?
Life is hard.
The only way to keep yearning and longing for things to be better for others is to recognize how much one already has to give –
to give to others in need,
and
to give thanks for.
Staring with
that we
breathe,
also this day.