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Thursday, January 8

1/8/2015

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Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
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I can't count the number of times in my life when I have felt like the earth before God created fun stuff for the scientists to make sense of.  Formless and void.  Sounds like most of my Monday mornings.  The end of the week too.  At first glance, I don't see much of God's creative handiwork. But God does seem to touch my days much like the wind that kisses the flat, glassy surface of the waters. The earth shivers with goose pimples at the creator's touch and so do I.  Startled but not afraid.  
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Holy God, take this formless pile of human goo and shape my life into something that is good.  Amen.
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Wednesday, January 7

1/7/2015

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Psalm 29:1-2
Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name; worship the Lord in holy splendor.
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Every once in a while, I need a reminder that God is bigger than time, bigger than the planet, bigger than the daily news, bigger even than the Bible and the Church.  When God is not doing what I want God to be doing, God shrinks in my view. I wonder if the psalmist coaxes us into ascribing grand and glorious visions of the Lord to free our vision of God from our puny constraints.  Truth be told, I need a reminder most often that God is actually bigger than my most inflated version of myself. 
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Holy God...whoa!....when did you get so tall?  Amen.
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Tuesday, January 6

1/6/2015

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Acts 19:4-5
Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 
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A new buzz phrase surfacing in church professionals' conversations is "radical hospitality."  We like to think that the ways and means of God's grace through baptism and communion is open to all.  We are discovering that we have built some visible and invisible doors which remain closed until people do our required tasks. In the interest of making sure the practices are received with the "right" attitude and information, we become the gatekeepers of God's grace. Jesus made baptism and communion the vehicles for his forgiveness. Let's fling open any doors that are standing in the way. 
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We trust in your unending grace, Lord.  Amen.
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Monday, January 5

1/6/2015

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Mark 1:4-5
John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
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Who do we believe when it comes to our opinion about ourselves?  Mega messages of Oprah-like motivational speakers infuse us with "we are good, gifted, valuable, important, deserving of a good life, capable of great accomplishments and compassion."  The other end of the spectrum taunts us with "we are self-centered, unworthy, hopeless pots of human swill incapable of doing anything good but causing hurt and confusion wherever we go."  And the road between the two is where we travel in order to get through the day doing the things that need to be done. Standing on the bank of a river listening to John again, I am compelled by his argument that something is wrong with us and we need to come clean. We do need a savior. 
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Forgive us our sins, Lord and show us the way.  Amen.
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