What Consumes Our Lives?

Lectionary Readings

Zechariah 12:8–10; 13:1
Psalm 63
Colossians 1:1-14
Luke 9:18–24

Pray without ceasing Colossians 1:9-14 (paraphrased) |

Lord, fill us, your church, with the knowledge of your will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that we may walk in a manner worthy of Jesus, Our Lord, fully pleasing to you. By Your spirit, help us bear fruit in every good work and increase in the knowledge of you; strengthen us with all power according to your glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; we give you thanks, God our Father, for your great mercy, qualifying us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. We praise you for delivering us from the domain of darkness and transferring us to the kingdom of your beloved son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Tithe Poem

The Spreading Oak Tree | Colossians Series 1

Rooted depths branch upward;
flow, drink, breathe, shade.

Tap-root hidden soil saturates;
consumes, courses, receives, spreads.

Obedient buried action ascending;
germinating, unfurling, quickening, flourishing.

In the place it did not choose,
the spreading oak descends, ascends,
bears fruit, gives shade. Spreading
root and branch course with new life.