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March 10, 2020 DAILY READINGS Psalm 128 Isaiah 65:17-25 Romans 4:6-13 FIELD NOTES Isaiah 65 asks us to imagine God’s new creation, where infants thrive and grow up in God’s grace, where old folks have long, useful lives, enjoying the house they built or the garden they planted. There, even former enemies live together in…

March 9, 2020 DAILY READINGS This weekend’s reading: Job 19:13-25 Read the psalm aloud with expression and feeling. How does this psalm compare to the way you pray when you feel like the writer does? Psalm 139 (A psalm of David) You have searched me, Lord,    and you know me.You know when I sit and when I…

March 7, 2020 DAILY READINGS 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light. John 12:27-36 This weekend’s reading: Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES On the first day of creation God created light and then separated the light from the dark.  There’s an old Jewish Midrash saying that goes,…

March 6, 2020 DAILY READINGS Exodus 6: 1-13This weekend’s reading: Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES Our story today opens with God declaring: Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh!  And then in verses 2-8 God reminds Moses: that God has been there with his ancestors in the past, that God currently hears the…

March 5, 2020 DAILY READINGS Psalm 91This weekend’s reading:Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES One of the lessons I learn every Lent is the power of letting God be God. Of course, this requires me to surrender a lot. I must surrender my expectations of timing, my need to have things done in the way I want…

March 4, 2020 DAILY READINGS Joel 2:1-2, 12-17This weekend’s reading:Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES Last week was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which is a penitential season.  Penance is a time of confession for the desire of reconciliation.  As they Israelites gather at Mount Sinai following 400 years of slavery in Egypt God reveals God’s…

March 2, 2020 DAILY READINGS Exodus 35:1-29This weekend’s reading:Job 2:11-13 FIELD NOTES After 400 years of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites are being led into freedom and a new kind of living.  God has provided food, guidance, and a leader (Moses) for the journey.  God has met them at the Mountain and provided a code…

February 29, 2020 DAILY READINGS Romans 5:12-19This weekend’s reading:Job 1:6-12 FIELD NOTES 5:12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned- 5:13 sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when…