Do the Good That Is Yours to Do
The reflection by Rev. Jeanne Randall-Bodman presented on Sunday, December 15, 2024.
“This Advent in the quiet spaces of our hearts, where God’s still, small voice speaks to us, we are called to discern what is our to do… Our work might seem small or insignificant, but when we look at the long stories of scripture, the stories of the Hebrew bible, the stories of the New Testament, the stories of church history, we see lots of ordinary, flawed people stepping in with their small thing and doing it with a full heart. Each good work no matter how small, is an important thread in the fabric of the whole; part of God’s on-going creation story where love will overcome, peace will be restored, and new life will emerge. In this time when our national life feels so precarious every small gift is more needed than ever. Every act of generosity, and truth telling, and compassion, and justice belongs to that larger divine tapestry.”
Liberating Words:
Isaiah 58: 9b - 12
Luke 3: 7 - 16