Today, we notice that the blind man in our story did not, could not, come to Jesus on his own. He needed the help of his friends.

On Sunday we listened to this beautiful reframing of Scripture’s invitation in Phil. 4 (so often phrased as a command) that we not be anxious. “Don’t be afraid is one of the most abused phrases from the Bible…”

Below you’ll find a short list of guided meditation possibilities, many updating daily - would you like to pick one to try out this morning?

“Give us this day our daily bread…” It’s a radical prayer already, because Jesus invites us to pray not just for our own individual daily needs, but to include the we of it all - to pray for what our neighbors need too. (The ones we like and the ones we quite honestly don’t.)

How radical that Jesus would hold up this loud, fierce woman as an example when so often those on the margins are told to be quiet and make do, to not need or demand too much!

When we sit withe idea of tables turning, of a God who is always at work behind the scenes lifting up the downtrodden, reclaiming the disenfranchised, bringing deliverance for God’s people, what are we praying for?