Lenten Devotions in Hard Economic Times

TWENTIETH DAY OF LENT 
               MARCH 11
  
 Joshua 5: 9a
 II Corinthians 5: 17
 
 
 
Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.
 
Whatever the name of the land of your slavery,
Whatever the state of your soul,
The storm clouds of humiliation,
The towering, threatening, cumulonimbi
Of shame
Have whirled away,
Clearing the air
Of ominous overlay.
 
No matter who you are,
No matter what you have been
On life’s journey,
You are welcome here,
And now,
To the new creation,
Where diss dissolves;
The dingy haze of dis-grace
Disperses;
And grace alone
Constitutes the
Atmosphere.
 
 
 
 
Scripture cited from New Revised Standard Version
commentary in italics