From Jan. 20, 2008 archive]
We hear no speech, nor any words;
yet your voice comes to call us out.
Sometimes you call us to safety,
to escape the waters of a flood;
sometimes you call us only to
lead a life worthy of your call.
No matter, you have called those
you want; we are your prisoners.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 19; 150; 81;
113
Gen. 7:1-10,
17-23
Eph. 4:1-16
Mark 3:7-19
Selected Verses
Ps. 19:3-4
There is no speech, nor are there words;
[the voice of
the heavens and firmament] is not heard;
yet their voice goes out through all the earth,
and their
words to the end of the world.
Gen. 7:7
And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went
into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Eph. 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life
worthy of the calling to which you have been called…
Mark 3:13
[Jesus] went up the mountain and
called to him those whom he wanted, and they came to him.
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