Tell me Something good
Prayer
Dear God, we thank you for this meal and the joy of sharing it with friends. We ask that you bless this food to nourish our bodies and conversations to uplift our spirits. May our time together be filled with laughter, love, and meaningful connection. We are grateful for your presence in our lives and for the gift of community. Amen.
GRAB FOOD AND START TO EAT
If there is someone you don’t recognize at your table Introduce yourself:
Name and Pronouns
(If you don’t know the folks you’re sitting with…) What do you do full time? Work, school, etc. and what do you do/study?
If you could have an unlimited supply of one thing, what would it be?
“Jesus did speak of “wars and rumors of wars” (Matthew 24:6). But in that same discourse, he warned against alarmism, that no one knows the day or the hour of the end, and urged faithful endurance. In the very next chapter, Matthew 25, where he describes the final judgment of all the nations of the world, he does not ask which world nations were supported or who correctly decoded geopolitical signs. He asks who fed the hungry, welcomed the stranger, clothed the naked, and visited the imprisoned.”
Rev. Ben Cremer
https://benjaminrcremer.substack.com/p/why-would-some-christians-be-excited?utm_source=%2Finbox&utm_medium=reader2
Questions:
The Apostle Paul, believed deeply that all of God’s commands “are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” (Romans 13:9-10) What might faithfulness look like in the midst of volatile geopolitical moments?
Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber writes, “To be clear: I’m not doing all this to ignore the world.
I’m doing it to pay attention to it - in real time and real life. Because the doom will be there, but so will the crocus and this is just not the year to miss the good shit.If you’re a hashtag person, let’s use this one:
#40DaysofGoodShit (of all the pious Lent-oriented hashtags out there, I just sort of assumed that one isn’t being used)”What is one good thing from your day today?
Prayer
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