Good Works

The Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.” Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’—and the scripture cannot be annulled—can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands. He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” And many believed in him there. John 10:31-42 

Good Works

Dear Lord of our nights and days

our deep sorrows and our joys

our dreams and our great losses

draw near to our aching hearts.

There is so much anger and fear

the world seems foreboding, hollow

the virus lingers and reappears

we want to be swaddled and held.

Come among us and empower us

while there is still light and time

recharge us and revive us for now

so that light can flow through us.

We pray for the lonely and sad

let us be their presence their friends

we pray for the over burdened

may we be the hands that set them free. Amen.