Lamentations 3:23-33

Proper 8 (13) - Year B

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Lamentations 3:23-33 or Psalm 130 or Psalm 30

We, created in the image of G*D, have the power to forgive, to redeem. Will we be generous with this power?

We have the experience of renewed health after illness and, by extension, of resurrection after death. Will we extrapolate from our experience in our interactions with others or limit it to ourselves?

We have a new day in which to move beyond our prior responses to life, not trying to clone our experience but build on it. Will we stretch to a next layer of life that is both higher and deeper than where we have been and include others in that?

Knowing we have an option beyond yesterday and today opens to us a basic understanding of life -- life-long learning. We can take the generosity of our ancestors who took things as far as they could and now push things as far as we can that those who follow will be grateful for our generosity that has so blessed them. We can. Will we?

http://www.kairoscomotion.org/lectionary/2006/july2006.html