Friday, February 24, 2017

Unexpected treasure … in serving the stranger


Morning: Psalm 140, 142; Ruth 3:1-18; 2 Corinthians 4:1-12
Evening: Psalms 141, 143:1-11; Matthew 5:38-48
I choke at some Hollywood caricatures, especially predictable religious leaders, mouthing pious platitudes!  Lord, help me be authentic! But the characters who unpredictably and unexpectedly serve strangers who cannot repay them … Now, they always touch my heart - Superman, the Lone Ranger, Robin Hood!  God fills our human ‘clay vessels’ with the great treasure of Love.  Lavishing love only on those closest to us is a miserly caricature of humanity.  But when, unexpectedly, I serve a stranger, I release a treasure of Love I did not know was in me - or in them.

Graham
Graham Bland
Rector
St. George’s Anglican Church

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