Bounty, from Our Bountiful God--Nov. 6, 2015

[From Nov. 8, 2013 archive]

Lord God the Almighty,

God of our ancestors,

King of the nations:

great and amazing are your deeds.

You crown the year with your bounty,

your wagon tracks overflow with richness.

We eat and are full, with baskets of leftovers.

Most amazing, you have created us to be holy.

In gratitude for your bounty we give

ourselves to you in a freewill offering,

that we may share your bounty with others.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 51; 148; 142; 25

Ezra 7:27-28, 8:21-36

Rev. 15:1-8

Matt. 14:13-21

Selected Verses

Ps. 65:11

You crown the year with your bounty;
          your wagon tracks overflow with richness.

Ezra 7:28

And I [Ezra] said to [the twelve leading priests and ten of their kin], "You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your ancestors.  …"

Rev. 15:3b

Great and amazing are your deeds,
          Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
          King of the nations!

Matt. 14:20 

And all [in the crowds] ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.