November 12, 2008

I. Readings
Psalms 4, 15, 48
Joel 2:12-19
Revelation 19:11-21
Luke 15:1-10

II. Selections
Psalm 15:3
...[ Those] who do not slander with their tongue,
and do no evil to their friends,
nor take up a reproach against their neighbors ...

Joel 2:12-13a
Yet even now, says the LORD,
return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
rend your hearts and not your clothing.

Revelation 19:11
Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse! Its rider is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

Luke 15:1
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to [ Jesus].

III. Meditation: Listen

The rider on the white horse,
the one named Faithful and True-
whom does he judge, make war against?

Perhaps those who slander with their tongue,
do evil to their friends, or reproach their neighbors? ;
Not the sinners or tax collectors, though, not if they listen.

Not if they listen, and return to you with all their hearts,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
not if they rend their hearts, and listen.