Gracious God, grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things that we can, and the wisdom to know the difference ☩ in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Over the past several Sundays, we’ve heard some of the most well-known and most load-bearing passages in all of our sacred Scriptures. Last Sunday, we heard John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” A few weeks prior, it was Micah 6:8, “What does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?” Back in Christmastide it was John 1:14, “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.”
