Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Where Ever Our Paths Take Us.
Hold Us In Your Hands.
Jeremiah 10:10
The Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus said, ‘I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants.
Words of Grace For Today
We all have places to go, if not that we actually go, then places to which we wish we could go.
Some of us dream of seeing the greatest man-made wonders: the great wall of China, the pyramids in Egypt, and in space the ISS. Or the wondrous features of earth: Siberia’s expanses, the ice shelves of Antarctica, the tundras of north Canada, the Grand Canyon, or … we each have our own list.
Many of us, though, have lesser places to go. Some of us must go on regular trips for business or family, and others of us have options to go places (or we wish we had the option.)
As we travel and others travel, we remember how powerful God is, that at God’s wrath the earth quakes. We remember that the greatest truths of God’s creation God does not reveal to the people who proclaim themselves ‘wise and intelligent’. Rather God reveals the greatest truths to the supposed ‘infants’ of this earth, the supposed ‘foolish’, ‘guilty’, and ‘outsiders’.
Today we remember all these travellers, supposed wise and God’s own children, and pray that God will accompany each traveller, on the way there, and on the way back, so that all travellers will live well before and after each trip that must be, and each trip that we choose to make.
We, also, pray that together we will remember how our trips cost the earth in CO emissions, and all of us a bit of our future, and a bit more for our future generations.
God, be merciful to us, as we poison the very earth you created for us to live on, as we travel to and fro.