I. Readings
Psalms 81, 116, 143
Job 8: 1-10, 20-22
Acts 10:17-33
John 7:14-36
II. Selections
Psalm 81:7
In distress you called, and I rescued you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
Job 8:21
" ...[ God] will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
and your lips with shouts of joy.
Acts 10:33
" ...Therefore I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. So now all of us are here in the presence of God to listen to all that the Lord has commanded you to say."
John 7:34
" ...you will search for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come." [ Jesus to the crowd]
III. Meditation: Speak to us
When will you fill our mouths with laughter,
and our lips with shouts of joy?
We search for you and cannot find you;
where you are, we cannot come.
Yet we remember how in distress we called,
and you answered and rescued us.
Speak to us as you spoke through Peter
to Cornelius and his friends.
Make us as eager as they were
to hear what you have to say.
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