Even a Home for a Sparrow--Oct. 29, 2021

[From Nov. 1, 2019 archive]

 

In our world weeds grow with the wheat, 

good times are mixed with bad times,

often sadness follows happiness,

and perhaps for us the stars 

crash down to earth.

 

Yet, O God, 

even the sparrow

finds a home with you.

How much more may we!

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 84; 148; 25; 40

Neh. 2:1-20

Rev. 6:12-7:4

Matt. 13:24-30

 

Selected Verses

Ps. 84:3

Even the sparrow finds a home,
          and the swallow a nest for herself,
          where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O LORD of hosts,
          my King and my God.

 

Neh. 2:2

So the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick?  This can only be sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

 

Rev. 6:12-13

When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and there came a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,  and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.

 

Matt. 13:24-25

[Jesus] put before [the crowd] another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.  So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.  …”