Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.”
NL Daily Devotion for Friday, May 22, 2020
by R. Fergus Moir, Clergy Stuff
(Written April 2, 2020)
If this COVID-19 pandemic has shown us anything it is that we are all deeply interconnected. Not just in our individual churches or communities, but with the entire world. In the United States, we’re all indoctrinated to believe that individualism is to be valued above all else. Independence is the highest aim. But in fact, these ideals are not only isolating, but also impossible, as we are witnessing now. God created us to be in community with one another and all of God’s creation (the natural world). We are called to be with one another, suffering and rejoicing together. Of course, right now we are having to find alternative ways to be together, as we must be physically separated in order to protect the most vulnerable among us. But even in the exercise of trying to find ways to be community in the midst of this we are reminded of how much we need one another, and living into God’s call to suffer and rejoice together.
How can I reach out in love and support to someone else today?
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