[From May 29, 2011 archive]
Your decrees are sure, your commands are clear:
We are to receive your good creation with thanks
and open our hand to our poor and needy neighbor.
Your kingdom starts in our hearts
like a tiny bit of yeast; if we let it,
it will leaven our lives to the fullest.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117
Deut. 15:1-11
1 Tim. 3:14-4:5
Matt. 13:24-34a
Selected Verses
Ps. 93:5
Your decrees are very sure;
holiness befits your house,
O LORD, forevermore.
Deut. 15:11
Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, “Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.”
1 Tim. 4:4-5
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.
Matt. 13:33
[Jesus] told [his disciples] another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”
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