August 15, 2022

What do Virgil, Kafka, and Emily Dickinson have in common? On their death beds, all three writers requested that all their works should be destroyed. Imagine that! No Aeneid? No Gregor Samsa waking up one day as a giant cockroach? No “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”?

Maybe you are tempted to think what you have to offer the world isn’t worth keeping. Well, rewatch “It’s a Wonderful Life”. If you don’t have time for that or want to wait until Christmas, then hear this scripture. “As each of you has received a special gift from God, use it in serving one another as stewards of the manifold grace of God.” (1 Peter 4:10)

Happy Monday!

“O Lord, you have taught us that without love whatever we do is worth nothing; Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts your greatest gift, which is love, the true bond of peace and of all virtue, without which whoever lives is accounted dead before you. Grant this for the sake of your only Son Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany – BCP)