the good shepherd taken yankton 2004

 

2005 photo

 

dec 3 2005

Is 30:19-21, 23-26 Thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: O people of Zion, who dwell in Jerusalem, no more will you weep; He will be gracious to you when you cry out, as soon as he hears he will answer you. The Lord will give you the bread you need and the water for which you thirst. No longer will your Teacher hide himself, but with your own eyes you shall see your Teacher, While from behind, a voice shall sound in your ears: “This is the way; walk in it,” when you would turn to the right or to the left.

He will give rain for the seed that you sow in the ground, And the wheat that the soil produces
will be rich and abundant. On that day your flock will be given pasture and the lamb will graze in spacious meadows; The oxen and the asses that till the ground will eat silage tossed to them
with shovel and pitchfork. Upon every high mountain and lofty hill there will be streams of running water. On the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall, The light of the moon will be like that of the sun and the light of the sun will be seven times greater like the light of seven days. On the day the LORD binds up the wounds of his people, he will heal the bruises left by his blows.

God will provide. God will heal. God will protect and guide. There is nothing to cry over or fear in all ways at all times God is near. It is a simple and constant promise. You will be my people. There is a sense at times that God is very near and others that God is so distant and most of that near and far is from within my soul and part of my faith growing and waning as life carries me through times of richness and poverty. I pray for the presence to sense the all loving gift that is within life at all times in my life today.