Better than Life--Nov. 2, 2013

 You are able

to take the tiniest

thing we do and make

of it a marvelous blessing.

Give us a mind to do your work;

your steadfast love is better than life.

Blessing and glory and wisdom

and thanksgiving and honor

and power and might be

to you forever and

ever, O God!

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 63; 149; 125; 90

Neh. 4:1-23

Rev. 7:4-17

Matt. 13:31-35

Selected Verses

Ps. 63:3

Because your steadfast love is better than life,
          my lips will praise you.

Neh. 4:6

So we rebuilt the wall, and all the wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work.

Rev. 7:12

…singing,
     "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom
     and thanksgiving and honor
     and power and might
     be to our God forever and ever!  Amen."

Matt. 13:31-32

[Jesus] put before [his disciples] another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches."