I couldn't stand it. The edited Book of Alternative Services lectionary drives me mad. God reveals Himself and His relationships with His people through the Scriptures. All the Scriptures, not just the "nice" bits. In that way, the Scriptures are like and about real life. To live life to the full is to grapple with and submit to God's Word written—living, active, inspired, truthful, authoritative, challenging, disturbing and sometimes downright irritating.
So it's back to The Saint James Daily Devotional Guide.
:-)
a clergyman may be apparently as useless as a cat, but he is also as fascinating, for there must be some strange reason for his existence (GK Chesterton): one retired Anglican septuagenarian clergyman's THOUghts, discOverings, readings, scribbLes, wOndeRings and dooDles exploring that strange reason
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