Keep us forever grounded in your blessing, O God of love. Amen.
Faith is a dialogue; a conversation between Creator and Creation. In Genesis, we read that God created not with the snap of the fingers, or by assembling various parts, or by a thought, but with a word – “Let there be.” God spoke to nothingness and nothing responded by becoming something. God’s relationship with Israel is rooted in speech to Abraham, Rebekah, Moses, Deborah, Daniel, Isaiah, and Micah. One way of understanding the faith of Israel is as a holy conversation with God.