Weekday Devotions for 06/05/2015

Pastor Al Debelak's Weekday Devotions. View this email in your browser Weekday Devotions Redeemer Lutheran 06/05/2015 edition Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Jun 05, 2015 05:50 am The Followers of Jesus as ready. Comments to adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Followers of Jesus as ready go right to the end - there is always life around us and life coming at us. We are being invited to take part in all the life that will fill our day. We all know that life changes as we age and as we move through life stages and yet we must miss those passages and try to stay in a place we know best and feel the most comfortable. The Followers of Jesus as ready consider how much more there is to life. We keep our doors open and let ourselves be ready for the strangers who enter and for the castaways who have been denied entrance in other places. When we are ready for the unfolding of God's Reign among us, the day becomes filled with hopefulness for everyone. We are then a part of that hope in the world - a hope that many long for and yet often never experience. God of Love and All Hopefulness, wide open are our eyes and yet we often do not see. Give us the vision to see the expansiveness of your Reign and its life as it is blossoming around us. Amen. Read in browser » Weekday Devotions By Redeemer Lutheran on Jun 04, 2015 08:11 am The Followers of Jesus as Ready. Comments to adebelak@redeemerluth.com The Followers of Jesus as ready are ready to pick up that which has been forgotten or left out - ready to bring the community back together - to heal - to restore. When we are not ready to be a people like that, we will too often be people who walk by and go our own way without consideration for others. We are ready to be a part of the 'earth as it is in heaven' that we say each week in worship. The Followers of Jesus as ready may be afraid or anxious about the world we experience around us and yet we are ready to do something about it. At times that is as simple as listening to the stories of others so that we become filled with a bigger image of whose God's beloved are. Ready to listen - almost sounds odd in a world that is always ready to roll. God of Love and All Hopefulness, within this day make us ready to be another piece of your image alive in this world. Amen. Read in browser » Recent Articles: Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Weekday Devotions Copyright © 2015 Redeemer Lutheran Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a member of the Redeemer community Our mailing address is: Redeemer Lutheran Church 1555 South James Road Columbus, Oh 43227 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences