This week the daily reflections are taken from Daily Feast: Meditations from Feasting on the Word, Year B. Daily Feast looks ahead to the scripture texts for the coming Sunday and offers a meditation, response and prayer for each day. (It is available in both print and ebook editions). I have the ebook edition through the Kindle App on my iPad.
Reflection on Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 - God's covenant with Abraham
'On the Second Sunday in Lent, this point merits attention. We do not head straight to Easter from the spa or the shopping mall. Instead, we are invited to spend forty days examining the nature of our own covenant with God. Upon what does that relationship depend? What do we trust to give us life? What concrete practices allow us to become bodily involved with God? If we were to ask God for a new name, what might that name be? What new purpose might that name signify? While Lent focuses naturally on the example of Jesus, Jesus focused just as naturally on the example of Abraham (Matt 8:11). Like his forebear in faith, Jesus walked toward God's promise in steady trust, leading God to give him a new name too: "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased." '
Barbara Brown Taylor
Reflecting on the every day, practical dimensions of faith. Practices to shape our lives each day as followers of Christ. Stories to share our practical experiences of wisdom, faith, hope, and love.
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