photo by Richard Russell Martha Braithwaite, a British minister of the nineteenth century, found herself often tried by weakness and dejection while traveling in her youth, after exhilarating times when she felt she was “well used” in ministry. She brought this sense of bereavement into her prayer, and was led to see how the emptiness was actually a time to wait and receive, perhaps in ways she could not identify.
I soon found my mind dipped into fresh baptisms as we rode along. Oh, these ‘ deaths oft,’ how the creaturely part does shrink from passing through them, and yet they are I believe indispensably necessary, nor is it any wonder if vessels in use need more washing and cleansing than those which may be laid up on the shelf. ~ from Brian Drayton’s Midweek Meditations Jan. 11, 2024 https://neym.org/events-calendar/2023/09/midweek-meditations ~ submitted by Richard Russell
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Donald Lathrop
1/19/2024 03:20:08 pm
Interesting. Makes me wonder if I need a bath.
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Richard Russell
2/16/2024 07:58:10 am
Hi, Don.
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