[From March 5, 2010 archive;
adapted from my journal, March 1, 2002]
As long as I can remember, you have been my God,
as you were my mother’s God, and her mother’s.
You have given me particular gifts, as you do to each person.
It is not my gift to remain calm in a boat while it is being swamped.
Nor is it my gift to be patient over much of anything.
I am more apt to say, “We should have done this sooner.”
Help me refrain from saying, even from thinking, these and
the related and still more useless words, “I told you so.”
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 22, 148, 105, 130
Gen. 43:1-15
1 Cor. 7:1-9
Mark 4:35-41
Selected Verses
Ps. 22:10
On you I was cast from my birth,
and since my mother bore me you have been my God.
Gen. 43:10
“…If we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice.” [Judah, to his father Israel]
1 Cor. 7:7b
But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind.
Mark 4:37-38a
A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But [Jesus] was in the stern, asleep on the cushion….
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