Gracious God, you
have dealt bountifully with me,
though I often make
crooked your straight paths.
In a few years, I
shall go the way from which
I shall not return; while
it is day, help me
to work the works you
want me to do,
before the night
comes, before my
soul returns to rest
in you.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 116; 147:12-20; 26; 130
Job 16:16-22, 17:1,
17:13-16
Acts 13:1-12
John 9:1-17
Selected Verses
Ps. 116:7
Return, O my soul, to your rest,
for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
Job 16:22
For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from
which I shall not return.
Acts 13:9-10
But Saul, also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit,
looked intently at [the magician] and said, "You son of the devil, you
enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop
making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? …"
John 9:4
"…We must work the works of him who sent me while it is
day; night is coming when no one can work.
…" [Jesus to his disciples]
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