August 26, 2021

“Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature. The more thankfully we receive what is given to us, the more surely and steadily will fellowship increase and grow from day to day as God please. Christian community is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate” 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said that about Christian community, but it applies to life in general. The more we chafe against what is given in favor of some ideal we have created, the unhappier we will be with the day to day.

St. Paul says, “For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen.” (Romans 11:36)

Where, or with whom does this touch down for you today?

“Give us grateful hearts, our Father, for all thy mercies, and make us mindful of the needs of others; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Grace at Meals – BCP p. 835)