Tuesday, April 27, 2004

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end.
(Lamentations 3.22 NRSV)

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Some of you may know the name, George MacDonald. He was a Congregational minister in a small parish in England in the middle of the nineteenth century. One day his deacons came to him to report that it was impossible for them to continue his salary. He would have to move on. He innocently offered to remain and support himself by writing and teaching. His wife, however, had insight that George did not.

"George," she said, "it isn't that the people here are too poor to pay us. They don't want us."

Can you feel the hurt in those words, "They don't want us?" MacDonald went on to distinguish himself as a poet and a novelist, but the memory of that failure was always with him. All of us go through storms.

I have been told "we don't want you" by a church. It is painful. Many of you know that feeling.

God's word reminds us that others may reject us, but God is always reaching out in love to us.

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God of peace, thanks for reaching out in love to me and for speaking to me during the hurts of life. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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