God of the Living

Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ‘if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.’ There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no children; and the second married her and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise; none of the seven left children. Last of all the woman herself died. In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had married her.”
Jesus said to them, “Is not this the reason you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is God not of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.” Mark 12:18-27 

God of the Living

Gracious God, living and true
we are covered in spring snow
isolated and in fear of dying
endless days with out direction.

We find ourselves quibbling
over small slights and incidentals
we cannot move about with comfort
we don't feel safe among the crowd.

We have begun to fear our neighbor
we judge others before we know them
our terror is evident behind our masks
we are all hitting our breaking points.

You are truly the God of the living
bringing us new life and possibility
rejuvenate our faith and imagination
so that we might rise to serve. Amen.