Listen For Help Given Long Ago
Thursday 20 February 2025
When Life Comes All Apart, Trying to Blindly Throw It All Together Rarely Works. Jesus Advises Us To Be As God Created Us, Ones Who Love Even Our Enemies.
Deuteronomy 32:36
Indeed the Lord will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.
Luke 18:7
And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?
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Words of Grace For Today
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While we have many plans to bring justice, by defeating evil itself, sending it into a grave it will never return from …
This is seldom the way God delivers us.
Jesus calls us to love our enemies.
Some of us have figured out that this is how God conquers evil.
Three bigger boys started in on the new boy, Yari, calling him names, taunting him, bullying him in more and more threatening ways. Then one day they knocked him around, stole his lunch, and ate it in front of him – taunting his helplessness. That night Yari talked it over with his father. They made a plan together. The next day, when the bullies appeared again, calling him names and demanding his lunch, Yari offered them three lunches, made especially for each of them. At first they were shocked. Then they left in embarrassment, never to bully or taunt him again.
Lectionary Stories, Cycle C, adapted 2025
May we be the instruments of God’s way to peace, in small ways each day.