Moving Forward - 12 February 2025

WEDNESDAY, February 12

1 Timothy 1:15 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost. 

When our mother moved our church membership from our former denomination to the Episcopal Church, I was enthralled. In love with books on Arthurian legend, my eight-year-old self couldn’t help but find beauty in the heavy, ornate vestments, the shining vessels on the altar, and the language of the Rite I liturgy. I was especially enamored of the prayer of humble access: “We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table. But thou art the same Lord whose property is always to have mercy.” 

To me, the words seemed a mix between the comfort of my favorite fairy tales and the warmth of my grandmother’s voice reading passages from the King James Bible. I knew I was beloved and made in the image of God, and yet God was so big, so wide, so infinite in wonder and beauty that I could never get near God on my own. And yet here I was! Divine mercy did that, divine mercy as an expression of deep, divine love. My little-girl self still catches her breath at the thought.

MOVING FORWARD: What did you think about God as a child?

PRAY for the Diocese of Lusaka (Central Africa)

Ps 119:97-120 * 81, 82 | Isaiah 59:15b-21 | 2 Timothy 1:15—2:13 | Mark 10:1-16

(Source: Forward Day by Day Movement)