LENTEN HEALING 2014 Thoughts and Prayers for the Healing of the World FOR March 13-19 Please bring BATH TOWELS-dark colored bath towels (between 20x40 and 52x27) for health kits Read (in the Old Testament) Psalm 104, 1-9 and (in the New Testament) Matthew 6:25-34 Psalm 104, 1-9 /New Testament Matthew 6:25-34 “Knowing Where Your Towel Is” Being something of a science fiction fan, I have enjoyed Douglas Adams’s “A Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Among the many silly and amazing Adams comes up with he says a great deal about how critical it is to hitch-hikers to know where one’s towel is. A towel can wrap a person against the cold, provide a more comfortable place to sleep, to shade one’s eyes on a bright day (or a bright night on a planet where the stars shine too brightly) or allow a person to engage in hand to hand combat. As I understand it, Douglas Adams based his praise of towels on words from Keneth Welch’s book, A Hitch-hiker’s Guide to Europe, which had many good legitimate things to say about towels’ utility. So in the solemn season of Lent, we invite you to know where your towels are. They may be in Iraq, assisting folks with simple sanitation. They may be in Tanzania wrapping a child. We know there will be somewhere, in God’s name, doing God’s kingdom work of healing. Psalm 104 describes God’s glory wrapped like a garment. Can you imagine a towel, wrapped around someone in need, as showing God’s glory? Matthew 6 records Jesus’ amazing words about leaving worry behind. After all, God feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grasses of the field in glory that would make King Solomon sit up and pay attention. Can you imagine God using you to provide needed covering to other people in need, so that they might give thanks to a God who provides so richly? Let’s pray. Holy God, through something so simple as a towel, bring some safety, some comfort, some sanitation to a corner of the world where these gifts make such a difference. In the name of the crucified one. Amen.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 05:43:43 +0000
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