[Dailydevo] Daily Devotion Friday October 28

[Barry Ludwig]

Daily Devotions Friday October 28, 2005

This week's devotions are offered by Karen Ludwig. They focus on the theme
of being neighborly. Who are these neighbors and what is to be done with
them!

 

Have you got the drift of being neighborly yet? 

You've got a choice to make: a. you can follow the lead of the neighbor in
the Robert Frost poem Mending Wall:

The wall is one that exists between two neighbors because according to the
one who has the pine trees:  "Good fences make good neighbors" even though
per poet "My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his
pines" The poet wants to know why-there are no cows to wall out, (or dogs
like in our first days devotions) but his neighbor cannot get beyond the
reality of a having a wall between. That is one "safe" response we can have
to being neighborly or we can  summarizing in the word of the hymn, Jesus,
Fill Us with Your Love. (WOV 765)

Refrain:

Jesu, Jesu, fill us with you love, show us how to serve the neighbors we
have from you. 

Verses:

1.	Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their feet,
master who pours out himself for them.
2.	Neighbors are wealthy and poor, varied in color and race, neighbors
are nearby and far away.
3.	These are the ones we will serve; these are the ones we will love;
all these are neighbors to us and you.
4.	Kneel at the feet of our friends, silently washing their feet; this
is the way we will live with you. 

 

This model is wall less-self less-prestige and position less-voice less. 

When we see a neighbor in need we respond with our entire being because in
so doing we become Christ like.  We become Community of Faith living out our
call.  

That's a lot to think about.

God bless us as we redefine neighbor as an extended, inclusive community.

 

 

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