April 7, 2022

In U2’s Beautiful Day, Bono sings “what you don’t have you don’t need it now,” a line that is lyrically related to “I’ll give you everything you want, except the thing that you want” from Original of the Species.

How much time/energy/effort is spent clawing after the thing that you don’t have, the thing that you want? Is there another way? Is what you want, in fact, not what you need?

The Apostle Paul says, “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19) What does that mean to you today?

“Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Proper 11 – BCP)