Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will tell what he has done for me.”
NL Daily Devotion for Friday, January 7, 2022
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
I’m active in a couple of recovery fellowships. If you know anything about 12-Step recovery, you’ll know that a central aspect of them is fellowship in the form of a weekly meeting. Meetings can be wildly different from one another. There are few, if any, rules for most of them. But what they all share is one crucial element: telling stories. We talk about what it was like when we were in active addiction, what happened to change us, and what life is like now, without using. It’s incredibly powerful to hear a wide variety of individual experiences, some quite harrowing, and then hear how God transforms and heals.
In my faith tradition, we don’t do a whole lot of this kind of witnessing, and I think we could really benefit from it as a community. As human beings I think we need to be vulnerable with one another and recognize the way God is actively working in our lives. We need to invite one another to “come and hear, and I will tell what God has done for me!” How awesome would that be!
Am I comfortable talking with others about how God is working in my life?