Today's Reflection

HUMAN BEINGS live in story like fish live in water. We literally experience our lives as a narrative—not as a series of random events but as a sequence of connected occasions and experiences stitched together in narrative form. In this way, our experiences take on coherence and meaning. We learn to understand the world, other people, and God through a narrative lens. We also live surrounded by God like the very air we breathe, often invisible to us but absolutely necessary for life.

—Michael E. Williams, Spoken into Being: Divine Encounters Through Story (Upper Room Books, 2017)

Today's Question

What narratives have contributed to your understanding of God?  

Today's Scripture

“Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.”
—Jeremiah 33:3 (NRSV)

Prayer for the Week

I love to tell the story
For those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it like the rest.

From "I Love to Tell the Story" by
Katherine Hankey, The United Methodist Hymnal, No. 156

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Lectionary Readings

(Courtesy of Vanderbilt Divinity Library)

• • Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4
  • Psalm 32:1-7
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
  • Luke 19:1-10

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