In Our Hearts, Turn--Oct. 21, 2019

We distance ourselves from you

O Lord; our lives go astray.

We seek to know what is beyond

all human understanding;

we are like children who disagree

for the sake of disagreeing.

We strive to forget all the wrongs

committed in our names,

and thus proceed to repeat them.

Speak peace to us, O God;

help us turn to you in our hearts

to live the words you say.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 57; 145; 85; 47

Jer. 44:1-14

1 Cor. 15:30-41

Matt. 11:16-24

Selected Verses

Ps. 85:8

Let me hear what God the LORD will speak,
          for he will speak peace to his people,
          to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts.

Jer. 44:9

Have you forgotten the crimes of your ancestors, of the kings of Judah, of their wives, your own crimes and those of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 

1 Cor. 15:35

But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised?  With what kind of body do they come?”

Matt. 11:16-17

“But to what will I compare this generation?  It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,
‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
          we wailed, and you did not mourn.’ …”

[Jesus, to the crowds]