November 15, 2022

“The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,” says the Lord.” (Isaiah 65: 25)

That’s the end of the passage that we read in yesterday’s Almost Daily from Isaiah. Heartbreakingly appropriate in Charlottesville today. As I write (Monday morning), 3 are dead and 2 wounded by a student gunman on the UVA Grounds. Students are in lockdown.

Please pray for all involved. One of my prayers is the prayer of the psalmist: “How long, O Lord? How long?”

“Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the Prince of Peace, as children of one Father; to whom be dominion and glory, now and for ever. Amen.” (For Peace – BCP)