The Behold! theme word for this week is Preparation (in the book Behold! by Pamela C. Hawkins.) Pamela relates a story about her aunt’s gardening practices – hard-working part of the year and then waiting for the preparation that our earth needs during fallow times.
She also references a beautiful song: Hail to the Lord’s Appointed. The words are HERE and you can hear the St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal congregation sing it HERE. The third verse of that hymn is:
He shall come down like showers
upon the fruitful earth;
love, joy, and hope, like flowers,
spring in his path to birth.
Before him on the mountains,
shall peace, the herald, go,
and righteousness, in fountains,
from hill to valley flow.
May our preparations this week and throughout the season be a combination of hard work and expectancy in all that happens even without us!
Enjoy the day, filled with the Spirit!
Lectionary Texts for this Sunday, December 10, 2017:
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