Columbus Day Celebrated

Love 

never 

ends. 

I Corinthians, 13:8

Sunday Evening Prayer

From the rising 

of the sun 

to its going down 

let the Name

of the 

Lord be praised.    Psalm 113:3

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) 

Saturday Evening Prayer

Yonder is the great and wide sea 

with its creatures too many to number, creatures both great and small. There move the ships and there is that Leviathan which you have 
made just for the fun of it.
Psalm 104:26-27

Saturday

If 

I have 

not 

love 

I am 

nothing. 

I Corinthians 13:2

Friday morning

my word will not return 

to me empty, but 

I will accomplish that which I have purposed and 

prosper in that for which I sent it. 

Canticle 10
This is kind of the crown of all the readings today.  At first I thought my verse might be in Psalm 142 “When my spirit languishes within me, you know my path.” But it wasn’t clear that it was, so I read on. I Kings continued to set the stage, listing endless kings, most of whom “did worse than their ancestors.” I often wonder why in the World we are reading this stuff but this year it makes sense, what with our own bleak landscape, the polarization, the paralysis, the ever widening gap between rich (and I mean RICH) and poor. Such is our common life (and our individual life) without God. Today the king destroys the golden vessels in the temple that King Solomon had made. “When my spirit languished with me...” indeed!  The first Morning Prayer canticle spoke the good news to me: "I will accomplish that which I have purposed.....”  So I used that on the blog, and went with the graphic which I was given.  But then in I Corinthians 12 I read the “we who are many are one body” and knew that was the fulfillment of the verse.... Whatever things look like  in our personal or national  or international life, God knows our path, God  will accomplish what HE has purposed which is the reconciliation of all things In HIM. I love the graphic, with all those individual gorgeous individual parts of the agapantha-to- be all squeezed in together! God will accomplish what He has purposed and we can get in the way or out of the way, but Gods word will not return to Him empty.                                                                                                               

Thursday Evening Prayer

Lord Jesus, stay 

with 

us for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion on the way, kindle our hearts and awaken hope...                             Collect for the Presence of Christ.

     Type font is Apple Chancery for Steve Jobs...