It's never about us

After 1 Samuel 17:26-49 

It’s never about us,

this life we live,

this world we inhabit;

it never is. And it never

was about us. A drama

unfolds across the years, 

across the millennia, 

across time human

and divine, a drama

in which we play but

a small part. No, it’s

not about us, but

about the one who

has written the drama,

the playwright, as

it’s always been.

 

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Some Friday Readings

 

“Psalm,” poem by Michellan Sarile-Alagao – D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

 

Seeing God’s Faithfulness in the Mundane – Lara d’Entremont at A Mother Held.

 

“Softly and Tenderly,” hymn by Will Thompson – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

I Miss the Stars – Seth Lewis.

Small things

After 1 Samuel 17:26-49 

The small things

of this world are

sometimes the most

powerful things

of this world. Like

using a small, smooth

stone to fight an army

with its champion 

a taunting giant,

a giant working fear

into the hearts of

ordinary men. But

a taunting giant is

no match for one

smooth stone, cast

by a boy, the Lord’s

anointed, a boy

outraged by insults

hurled at the army

of the living God.

 

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Some Sunday Readings

 

God Is Our Guide on Paths We Did Not Choose – Glenna Marshall.

 

What Does a Post-Literate Culture Look Like? – O. Alan Noble at You Are Not Your Own.

 

One of These (Beatitudes) Is Not Like the Others! – Br. Patrick Bubel at The Imaginative Conservative.