I. Readings
Psalms 5, 27, 51
Lamentations 2:1-9
2 Corinthians 1:23-2:11
Mark 12:1-11
II. Selections
Psalm 5:7
But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,
will enter your house,
I will bow down toward your holy temple
in awe of you.
Lamentations 2:6
[ The LORD] has broken down his booth like a garden,
he has destroyed his tabernacle;
the LORD has abolished in Zion
festival and sabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned
king and priest.
2 Corinthians 2:4
For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love I have for you.
Mark 12:9
What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
III. Meditation: Out of much distress
Through the abundance of your steadfast love,
you have given us the earth, this beautiful vineyard;
it is our place to live, where we can bow in awe of you.
We have not been good tenants of the vineyard;
greed and war, hubris and selfishness, hate and anger,
neglect and shortsightedness, threaten its very existence.
Not to cause us pain, but in your abundant love,
you have sent messengers to warn us of our failings;
but we persecute or ignore them and continue to despoil.
What then will you do? What do we deserve? ;
In fierce indignation will you spurn piety and law?
Will you come in wrath to break down, destroy, abolish? ;
Or will you simply leave us to destroy ourselves?
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