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Psalm 61
I was burdened and God became my strength—be with me always.
Psalm 62
In face of evil, we trust in God to be our solid foundation.
Wisdom 10: 1-21 What’s Wisdom about?
Wisdom was the source of all the amazing things in the Old Testament: gave wisdom to Adam, saved Noah, guided Joseph so he became the ruler of Egypt, rescued Israel from Egypt, and so on. We praise Wisdom, who is God’s presence for us and has been from the beginning and always will be.
Luke 8: 1-15 What’s Luke about?
Jesus is accompanied by a large group of women who support him. He tells the first of a series of stories about seeds—the harvest of randomly sown seeds always far exceeds what was planted. The subsequent interpretation of the seeds as standing for various responses to Jesus was probably an invented by a later disciple who thought Jesus was concerned with why people didn’t follow him rather than proclaiming that God’s inclusive kingdom will come despite its small beginnings. The involvement of women as leaders along with the twelve disciples is a sign that the kingdom is indeed happening and that people without power, often women then as now, may be the foundation of the coming kingdom.
This week’s collect:
Almighty God,
your Son Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
Give us grace to love one another
and walk in the way of his commandments,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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