I'm continually inspired by the Upper Room Daily Reflections. Today's seemed especially poignant in the context of just finishing God, Economy, and Poverty this semester.
Btw, I'm going to be helping with liturgy on Dec. 30 at my home church, and I'm kind of way excited. I don't know what that's going to entail, but if I can use the prayer that Dr. Meeks sent to the UMSA that Blair wrote, I'm totally going to do it.
Thursday’s Reflection
IN JOYOUS ANTICIPATION of her firstborn, Mary sings revolution. Enraptured that God chose her, a maiden of no prominence, a woman with no voice, to bear the world’s savior, her joy calls up visions of the rich tasting the dust of poverty, the powerful limping with the burden of oppression. … Mary would, I suspect, have us dream dreams and tell tales of hope, the kind of hope that the rich and powerful are too busy and satisfied to entertain, the kind of hope that sustains us in our poverty. That takes knowing our poverty, if not poverty of money, the poverty of intimacy and belonging — the very things our souls need most, the very things that require setting aside possessions and power. Mary’s anger frees us to celebrate her son’s birth. Let her in.
- J. Marshall JenkinsThe Upper Room Disciplines 2006From p. 365 of The Upper Room Disciplines 2006. Copyright © 2005 by Upper Room Books. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase next year’s Disciplines.
Today’s Scripture Reading
The angel said to Joseph, “[Mary] will have a son, and you will name him Jesus — because he will save his people from their sins.”
- Matthew 1:21, GNT
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