1st April 25

Good morning,

- and another lovely day forecast for us all.....need to get that grass cut.....18 degrees they say, how do they work that out I wonder. What strikes me about all of this loveliness is that oh so very soon we will be declaring a drought!!! Water butts at the ready there!

Noticing in the past (part 1) 

Week 4: Tuesday

Reading

Genesis 12.6-7

Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, ‘To your offspring I will give this land.’ So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Reflection 

There’s a detail that I just love in Abraham’s story – he keeps setting up altars. 

Again and again, we see that as soon as God does or says something, Abraham builds a physical reminder of what has been done or said. This is so that he, and his descendants after him, will bump into these altars for years to come – they’ll bump into reminders of God’s goodness. 

We’re so prone to forgetting, aren’t we? 

We can be living in answers to prayers that we’ve forgotten we even prayed. No wonder our hope can feel fragile at times; when we forget what God has done, we’ll have less confidence in what he can do.

So, maybe we need to intentionally recall – and then find tangible ways of remembering – how God has come through for us. 

Challenge

Today, why don’t we carve out a little time to make something or write something – to create ‘altars’ of remembrance, just as Abraham did, knowing that God’s still moving and working.

Have a great day

Rev Rie