First Lutheran Church recently issued the following announcement.
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Day 40 Tuesday, April 28, 2020
New Every Day-40 Devotions for Disaster Survivors
Honoring Your Experience-Genesis 8: 15, 17, 20
Do you need to honor the significance of what has happened? Recovery from a disaster often inspires rituals like placing flowers, pictures, letters, notes, or candles at the site of a tragedy, making it a shrine. Acts of hope too—like dedicating works of art; planting bushes, trees or gardens; or posting a plaque—are comforting.
After the flood, Noah and the other survivors left the ark, stepped onto dry ground, and built an altar. This symbolic act, both a memorial and a thanksgiving, facilitated the process of starting fresh under a rainbow of hope.
Having survived cancer three times, Jackie came to understand her rescue from the flood as a gift to help her and her family prepare for her eventual death. Because she had always sung a special song to each of her three grandchildren—“You Are My Sunshine” to the first, “Somewhere over the Rainbow” to the next, and to the youngest, “Jesus Love Me”—she had three symbols engraved on her monument: a sun, a rainbow, and a young boy praying. What symbolic acts might you initiate to honor your experience?
God of purpose, help me find and express meaning amid my trials. Amen.
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