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March 10 2025

Psalm 9 verses 1-2

I will give thanks to you, O God, with my whole heart; I will tell of all your marvelous works, I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing to your Name, O God.

When things are going badly we call on you for help., When we are afraid or ill or in danger we immediately pray for help. When we don’t talk to God is when everything is going well. We just don’t think about it. We are too happy or satisfied.

Sometimes I think we have it backwards. When things are going great we need to thank God. We need to jump up an down for joy and sing aloud songs of praise.

I can just imagine the expression on the faces of our friends and family. We just don’t do things like that. Maybe if we did we would bring more people to our churches. At least they would know that we count on God for good things. They would hear the good things God has done for us. Maybe then they would see that God is alive and well in our community. People would come because they would want what we have…. a real relationship with a living God.

Prayer: Living God we praise you and thank you We lift up our voices to you in song. Thank you for the good things in our lives. Thank you for the times of joy. We praise you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN

Homework: Take a few minutes to write down the good things in your life. Post the list on your bathroom mirror and thank God each morning during lent.

March 7 2025

Psalm 14 verse 1

The fool said in his heart, “There is no God.” All are corrupt and commit abominable acts; there is none who does any good.

Some times, when things are not going well, it’s easy to wonder if there really is a God. when life smacks us in the face we ask ourselves how can a loving God allow this? It’s hard for us since we are so limited in our understanding. We don’t have all the answers…just more questions. And yet all around us we can see God’s hand at work…in children, in our friends, in our family. Miracles are all around us. We just need to open our eyes to see. God is with us.

Prayer: Ever present God help us to see you in the world around us. Let us know you in other people, in events, in nature, everywhere so that we know God when faced with “there is no God.”

Does anything go well in medicine anymore? I have a friend whose granddaughter has been through a two or more month nightmare getting the right things done in hospitals. Yesterday I discovered that the people who supply my medicines had not sent me two medicines that I need regularly. I did finally get one but the other one is still a mess. Periodically the contracts for who does this work get moved to someone different (probably the lowest bidder) and they have not figured it out. The worst thing is that what shows up on my phone is not the correct provider so you don’t recognize them when they call or text.

I really wish I knew who to talk to about the phone thing because that causes major problems. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know exactly the right person to call to get things corrected? That would be nirvana.

It has reached the point where we all need a patient advocate who knows what to do and they need to be with us all the time.

Today as I was walking the dog it struck me that all of us wearing masks look like many apocalypse books I have read and films that I have seen in my life. It gave me a strange feeling. Growing up in the era when 1984, Brave New world, Animal Farm, That Hideous Strength, and the later film Soylent Green were most read and watched is strange today. I saw 1984 pass by, the fear of the millennial crisis (which never happened) and many other milestones come and go (and by the way, where is my personal flying car?).

And yet, this very morning I could see the dystopian future right in front of me. Will this virus subside or do we have many more variants coming? Will we always be the people wearing masks to protect us from each other? Will we never be able to establish physical connections with people other than those in our immediate circle? Have we so damaged the earth, our home, that there is no choice but isolation? These are frightening questions and I hope the answers do not define the future for coming generations.

Here in this country we are so divided that I question our ability to work together for the good of us all. The rest of the world is also plagued with problems from starvation, war, and fanatical religious differences, that it seems hard to imagine everyone joining together to save us all before it is too late.

Having said all of this I still have hope that somehow, someway, we will find a way to move forward and live in a world without masks, both the physical ones we don for safety and the mental/emotional ones we put on for the same reason. I pray that my grandchildren and great grandchildren will live in that world and not the one I see now.

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