Daily Office Readings for Thursday of Proper 2: Year 2:
Morning, Psalm 18:1-20; Evening, Psalm 18:21-50;
Proverbs 7:1 to 27; 1st John 5:13 to 21; Matthew 11:25 to 30:
“ I called upon the Lord in my distress and cried out to my God for help. He heard my voice from his heavenly dwelling; my cry of anguish came to his ears;” (Psalm 18: 6 and 7).
“God’s ears hears tears,” is my mantra about prayer. God is all about the human face. Just as I believe God “evolved” us mechanically so that only when our mouth is closed, do our ears open; so too does God get a signal when we cry. Crying is praying for all people, while not all praying is crying: both connect with God, but more especially crying because is a distress and God wants to know about it.
Only yesterday at our Bible Study did we read 2nd Samuel, Chapter 22, which is pretty much Psalm 18. Funny how today from our Daily Office, Psalm 18 is the selected reading. And in it are the words. “He heard my voice from his heavenly dwelling; my cry of anguish came to his ears;” I tell you God’s ears hears tears. In this way, all people pray, even the so-called card-carrying atheist, if they cry, they pray. God is, and God loves, all people.
Please keep up your thoughts and prayers and hopes for Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Palestine, and our schools including St. Augustine in Raleigh, North Carolina.
As we listen to what the Spirit of God is saying to us, let us live to love and serve, and to teach others to love and serve, while pondering anew what the Almighty can do. John
Let us pray:
Dear Holy and attentive Lord God, you love us so much that you connected us to you through our fears and tears. Make us, we pray, even without tears, more and more aware of your presence in our daily lives such that we will make ourselves vulnerable to your reaching out to us as we welcome your intervention in the situations of our lives. This we ask in your most sacred and holy Name. Amen.
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