A Fall Sunday in San Diego, 2011

Happy 

are 

they 

who 

have 

the 

God 

of 

Jacob

for 

their 

help! 

whose 

hope 

is in 

the 

Lord 

their 

God. 

Psalm 146:4

A Fall Sunday in Ely, 1999

I’m so grateful to have “the God of Jacob” for our help. Often I pass over it as a pious bit of fluff and forget the real history, the actual history. Our knowledge of God does not begin with Jesus, it merely continues the relationship with His Chosen ones., pointing always to the Father.  Jacob, remember, was the one, with his mother’s help, who stole his brother’s birthright for a bowl of lentils.  And when the day of reckoning finally came and Jacob was on his way to meet his bother, he was so uncertain about the outcome that he left half his stuff on the other side of the river so everything wouldn’t get taken! Our hope is in the Lord our God not because of dogma but because of a saving experience that repeats and repeats. 

Will Rogers said “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”  “ Give us such grace through our worship of you that he week to come may be spent in your favor.”  that “your grace may always precede and follow us”  (Collect for Sundays and The Collect of the day)