Thursday, March 10, 2022
Grace of forgiveness
An excerpt from Matthew 7:7 (NRSV)
Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened
for you.
Reflection from BJ Jones,
St. Lawrence Episcopal Church:
I know with “all my heart and all my soul and all my mind” that God is always with me, and that all I have to do to feel God’s presence is to reach out. When the “big things,” (like an illness or a job loss) happen, I am “asking” and “searching” and “knocking” so loudly that not only does God hear me, but so does everyone else around me!
But what about the little things? Why am I so reluctant to “ask and search and knock” when I am just having a bad day or my child isn’t invited or I am on the giving or receiving end of an unpleasant comment?I need to bring the little things as well as the big things to God.My Lenten resolve will be to bring it all, great and small, to God in prayer.Amen.
Photograph by BJ Jones
For further study and prayer, the readings assigned for today are:
Psalm 27; Genesis 13:1-7, 14-18; Philippians 3:2-12
MUSIC
“If Thou But Trust in God to Guide Thee,”
Sung by the Plymouth Choir and Congregation of First Plymouth Church, Lincoln Nebraska
Who trusts in God’s unchanging love
Builds on the rock that nought can move.