Weekly Word

Wednesday Weekly Word

Over the past two Sundays, I have shared stories about the people Jesus met and engaged with following the resurrection. That in the midst of their sorrow, disappointment, confusion and question, God’s power through the risen Jesus gave comfort, direction, and hope to their future. These lessons live today and can impact the future. I ended both meditations with a Benediction (a conviction and prayer) from Brian McClaren’s book, “faith after doubt” that I think is necessary to read or pray in the circumstances of today’s life and world. You are blessed. I am blessed. We are all blessed when we accept the love of God and the power to meet the challenges around us with strength, courage, and conviction in that love.

Reading and considering

each morning,

Pastor Laurie

Blessed are the curious,

for their curiosity honors reality.

Blessed are the uncertain and those with second thoughts,

for their minds are still open.

Blessed are the wonderers,

for they shall find what is wonderful.

Blessed are those who question their answers,

for their horizons will expand forever.

Blessed are those who often feel foolish,

for they are wiser than those who always think themselves wise.

Blessed are those who are scolded, suspected, and labeled as heretics

by the gatekeepers, for the prophets and mystics were treated in the

same way by the gatekeepers of their day.

Blessed are those who know their unknowing,

for they shall have the last laugh.

Blessed are the perplexed,

for they have reached the frontiers of contemplation.

Blessed are they who become cynical about their cynicism and suspicious

of their suspicion, for they will enter the second innocence.

Blessed are the doubters,

for they shall see through false gods.

Blessed are the lovers,

for they shall see God everywhere.