Today’s thought is by Frederick Buechner
To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn’t already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.
Preserve us with your grace, O God, our whole journey through; that we may live by faith, die in your favour, rest in your peace, rise in your power and reign in your glory, in the joy of Christ and in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, with whom you live and reign for ever and ever. Amen.
Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637)
God of surprises, in Jesus you were often found on the borderlands: leading people beyond the frontiers of the familiar to discover new truth. E quip us with the wisdom and imagination to negotiate those boundaries that isolate individuals and divide communities, so that even chasms of difference may become channels of your transforming grace. Amen.