Wednesday Devotion
Each Wednesday morning the Oklahoma Regional staff meet for devotion usually no matter where we are. Using online video tech we can connect for a shot time of thought and prayer. I’m leading today and this is the outline, minus the music, that I will use.
Opening Music: “40” by U2
I waited patiently for the Lord
He inclined and heard my cry
He lift me up out of the pit
Out of the miry clay
I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song
How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long…how long…how long…
How long…to sing this song
He set my feet upon a rock
And made my footsteps firm
Many will see
Many will see and fear
I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song
How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long…how long…how long…
Silence . . .
“Water”
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning boys. How’s the water?”
And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”(1)
Read Psalm 71 & Remember Others in Prayer
A Midrash
With what did God bless the seventh day? With light. When the sun set on the night of Sabbath, that light continued to function. . . But when the sun sank at the termination of the Sabbath, darkness began to set in. Adam was terrified, thinking, Surely the darkness shall envelop me.(Ps 139:11) . . .
What did God do for him? God made Adam find two flints that he struck against each other; light came forth and Adam uttered a blessing over it. (Genesis Rabbah 11:2) (2)
Silence
Go into your day.
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Notes
1. Wallace, David, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, Little, Brown, and Company, 2009, pp. 3-4.
2. Sasso, Sandy, God’s Echo, Paraclete Press, 2007, pp. 131-32.