When times are difficult
or dangerous,
we leave the place we
liked to be,
seeking out a place
of safety.
Arriving there we may
look
back in sorrow that
we had to go,
our soul cast down
within us,
longing for the days,
God,
when you were with us.
In such a time remind
us,
Lord, that you are
with us still.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 42; 146; 102; 133
Job 29:1-20
Acts 14:1-18
John 10:31-42
Selected Verses
Ps. 42:5b-c
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
Job 29:1-4
Job again took up his discourse and said: "Oh,
that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; when
his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness; when
I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent…"
Acts 14:5-6
And when an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with
their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them, the apostles learned of
it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding
country…
John 10:39-40
Then they tried to arrest [Jesus] again, but he escaped from
their hands. He went away again across
the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained
there.
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