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SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 5:10 “but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.” (NIV)
REFLECTION: An interview with Lieutenant Mary Powell of the Pennsylvania State Police alerted me to this scripture. She used it in reference to genealogical research.
Lt. Powell feels really blessed. Her faith is strong, reinforced by a faith healing as a child. But she doesn’t stop there.
“I would like to know who (my ancestral) Christians were that the Bible says about, ‘I will bless you for a thousand years. The generations of blessings interests me. Am I sitting here blessed because of my ancestor’s prayers?”
This brings new awareness to me (to read the rest of this devotion click on GENERATIONS OF BLESSINGS #26 )
To read the final set of devotions for Lent click on:
BEAR ONE ANOTHER’S BURDONS Lent Devotion #43 Galatians 6:2,
OVERSTUFFED Lent Devotion #13 Matthew 6:19-20,
LEAD ME TO MY ROCKING CHAIR Lent Devotion #24 John 5:36,
LOVE BY SERVING Lent Devotion #29 Mark 12:33
SCRIPTURE: Exodus 16:35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. (KJV)
REFLECTION: Our bodies are delicately made, precisely balanced. When one part develops a problem, there is a domino effect on other parts.
God knows just what our bodies need. He provided it to the Israelites on their desert journey. Manna and quail. Daily.
When I eat the same thing repeatedly, with no breaks, it gets tiring. I eventually (more…)
SCRIPTURE: Matthew 11:29 “Take My (Jesus’) yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
REFLECTION: Remember the Sabbath? Or are you too busy to note its passing, something easy to do while living in a culture that prizes a business model?
The almost universal greeting, ‘I am so busy,’ is said with no small degree of pride, as if our exhaustion were a trophy and our ability to withstand stress a mark of real character. The busier we are, (more…)
During Lent in 2007 the Beanery Online Literary Magazine, in conjunction with the Open Hands Ministries (a web site for the Open Hands and the United Methodist Churches in the Ligonier Valley, PA) posted forty days of Lent devotions. This year, I will repost one every five days, with links to additional devotions at the end of each reading.
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 46:4 Even in your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. (NIV)
DEVOTION: I look in the mirror and see yet another gray hair, and I quickly grab an old towel and my bottle of age-fixator. Then I apply (more…)
During Lent in 2007 the Beanery Online Literary Magazine, in conjunction with the Open Hands Ministries (a web site for the Open Hands and the United Methodist Churches in the Ligonier Valley, PA) posted forty days of Lent devotions. This year, I will repost one every five days, with links to additional devotions at the end of each reading.
SCRIPTURE: Mark 14:8 She (an unnamed woman) did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. (NIV)
REFLECTION: Jesus was supportive of the simple but elegant gift given by an unknown woman. He explained its symbolic meaning: (more…)
SCRIPTURE: Exodus 7:21 The fish that were in the river died, the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river… (KJV)
REFLECTION: I find surprising revelations emerge in news-feature work. One occurred during an interview with a local artist who was commissioned to do a painting for Wesley United Methodist Church in Connellsville, PA. Interestingly enough, the artists last name was Rockwell (more…)
