Leaping Out of Our Stalls--Feb. 23, 2020

Where your Spirit is, Jesus, there is freedom,

and to experience your freedom

is to feel like calves leaping out of the stall,

youth renewed like the eagle’s.

Freedom includes the freedom to choose,

including whether to follow you.

Every day we have that choice, not easy,

for it means denying ourselves.

And it also means taking up our cross,

following where you lead.

May your sun of righteousness arise

with healing in its wings,

as we in freedom leap from our stalls,

to become your followers.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139

Mal. 4:1-6

2 Cor. 3:7-18

Luke 9:18-27

Selected Verses

Ps. 103:5

…who satisfies you with good as long as you live
          so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Mal. 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

2 Cor. 3:17

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Luke 9:23

Then [Jesus] said to [all his disciples], “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.  …”