Kind of hurried this week. Kind of a simple reflection. But still, powerful teachings for us in this week’s readings. God’s generosity, given to people no matter how wrong it seems. How unfair! How lucky……
Category Archives: Intercessions
Intercessions for September 3, 2011
What is your authentic Gospel? This week, the lectionary lifts up readings that seem to speak about how and what we proclaim, when we claim we follow Christ. What is our responsibility? What is not our responsibility? I found quite a bit to think about this week, and perhaps you will also!
Intercessions for August 27, 2011
This week’s lectionary readings feel preoccupied with the perception of justice. What does “justice” mean? Are we to judge? Especially in the reality of living between the two kingdoms of God’s grace and judgement, neither of which we fully understand, we have to acknowledge how deeply we are manipulated by our own just world belief.
Older Intercessions
It occurred to me to post my older intercessions here, and stop hanging on to a bunch of files….. Browse these if you like, but they’re mainly here just for me for safe-keeping.
Intercessions for August 6, 2011
This is an interesting week. Isaiah doesn’t want to get killed, Jesus saves a drowning man, and Jews and Greeks are all the same. My biggest take-away from this week is that I’m glad that I’m comfortable with silence. It’s a pretty self-centered practice, in a way, to hide away from the world for some time to empty my mind and hear God. But yet it impacts my relationships to the community, so there has to be some place for talking about me in the midst of talking about us. It seems that “personal relationship with Jesus” and “communal faith” are really 2 ends of a spectrum, and neither is centered. But I digress….
Intercessions for July 30, 2011
This is the first time I’ve posted my intercessions for worship. It occurred to me that I ought to share them, and capture my thoughts and inspirations.
This week, the lectionary carries a strong message of God’s abundance in the wilderness. I’m just as bad as anyone else for forgetting, and seeing everything through the eyes of scarcity. We keep falling into the stinking thinking that we don’t have enough – that we need more and more. How can we survive this never-ending stress that can’t ever be satisfied? And if we can’t stop thinking about what we don’t have, how can we remember what we do have? I lose before I ever start, forgetting that I never needed to run in the race at all!
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