Let’s start our devotion today with praise from the Psalms.
This is the day the Lord hath made –
LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT!!
With the school shooting at Oxford which feels way too close to home for those of us located in Goodrich, even though any school shooting stops us in our tracks, and the many concerns in all our lives; we needed to be reminded ever of our sure grounding in our faith.
Today, I simply request that we spend extra time in prayer for those involved in the horror of that shooting and what will be a long trail of grief and trauma for students, teachers, administrators, parents, community members and the ripples forever move outward. Pray for the pain, the grief, the anxiety, the terror, those recovering from wounds, the shooter, his family, the community for the ability to reach and reach to a great depth of compassion in all things and everything else that changed a community’s world in one instant.
Pray also because this is indeed a day that the Lord has made. Without his secure foundation we would surely all perish. In the midst of great anguish, we must remember to continue to raise great praise.
Let’s end as we began, alpha and omega, I’ll say the first part and you respond.
This is the day the Lord hath made….
Your turn:…….
~Shauna Weil
A devotion provided by the Devotion Ministry of Goodrich UMC
A devotion provided by the Devotion Ministry of Goodrich UMC