Hope for the Future--May 17, 2019

Gracious and loving God,

your steadfast love endures forever.

Clothe me with my new self, renewed

according to the image you intended

me to have.  Fulfill your purpose

for me.  Do not forsake the

work of your hands.

Jesus, you had compassion for the widow;

return me to my home with you.

With you there is hope

for my future.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 96; 148; 49; 138

Jer. 31:15-22

Col. 3:1-11

Luke 7:1-17

Selected Verses

Ps. 138:8

The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;
          your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever.
          Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Jer. 31:17

…there is hope for your future,
                                                            says the LORD:
          your children shall come back to their own country.

Col. 3:10

…and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator. 

Luke 7:13

When the Lord saw [the widow whose only son had died], he had compassion for her and said to her, "Do not weep."