Written by Jonathan Melton
Psalm 107:21-22 (NRSV) Let them give thanks to the LORD for his mercy and the wonders he does for his children. Let them offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving and tell of his acts with shouts of joy.
The God who freed Israel from slavery in Egypt and raised Jesus from the dead loves us and delights in our flourishing. We bloom and blossom when we remember this most important love story; we come together and hear again the saving deeds of God in scripture. We thrive and thrill in the love we find in the arms of our family, our parish, and those whom we love deepest. As we are baptized into the life and death of Jesus and live out our baptismal covenant in the breaking of the bread and in holding to the rhythms of corporate and corporeal prayer together, we flourish.
As we seek to serve Christ in our neighbors and, against all odds see his face in their faces, we flourish in forgiving and in being forgiven. Unflagging, we learn generosity and gentleness—we open up space for the fire and surprise of the Spirit each and every day.
For all of this, God gives God’s love. For all of these things, we sing our thanks. We lift our songs of joy to the God whose joy in us—in all of creation—is beyond all we could ask or imagine.
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