Sunday, March 10, 2013 - Fourth Sunday in Lent

Worship: 8 & 10:45 am; Adult Forum 9:30: "The Exodus From a Different           Perspective", Earl Schwartz

Josh. 5:9-12; Ps. 32; 2 Cor. 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Our Savior's Meal

 

O God, who alone teaches us knowledge,

            lead me back to the one beginning
                        that I may learn your Truth.

After I have journeyed through the years, through the months,

            (not less, at the end of every single day,)
                        let me return to the one beginning.

After I have read many books,

            and sought wisdom by study;
after much experience of joy
            and some of sorrow;
after long search for beauty,
            unsatisfied by the outward eye;
after exercising what authority has been entrusted to me,
            after performing the humble duties at hand;
in all perplexity of mind, vexation of heart, weariness of spirit,
            after failure and sin -
make me return to the one beginning,
            that I may begin again.

Yes, after I have loved the Faith,

            and the place where your honor dwells,
            and your Scriptures and Sacraments,
            and have watched in prayer,
            bring me back always to the one beginning,
            to Yourself,
            my Father, my Savior, my Life, my Glory, world without end.  Amen
 
                                                                                     (Dean Eric Milner-White)