Reflections

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.
(John 16:20)

Lord, we grieve now with the people of Manchester, with all the oppressed, with refugees, with the earth itself when it is abused. I grieve personally over broken relationships, a suffering infant and her family, and my own weakness and sinfulness. Yet I know that you are in charge; you “nullify the counsel of the nations.” You will turn our tears into laughter.

Please help me today to remember the joy you promise us, not only in our resurrected lives, but here and now, for your Spirit is with me. Remind me that you bring all things to good. You make straight our path; you write straight with crooked lines. My Jesus, I trust in you.

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