All Will Be Well

AM Psalm 31 • PM Psalm 35
Jer. 24:1-10 • Rom. 9:19-33 • John 9:1-17

The psalm for today is clear and bright as a smile, or as a person who texts you, “Dear Rebecca, below are the two poems I keep forgetting to send to you.” The reading speaks of healing.

In the reading from John 9, Jesus says “I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day… I am the light of the world ….” Then He went to heal a blind man by anointing his eyes with clay and telling him to wash them. There was, of course, division among the people then and they asked the man who was blind, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” and he said, “The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash’: “so I went and washed and received my sight.”

In the morning, thinking of stories like this, I try to tell myself all will be well. Perhaps I brush my cat around her head and under her chin. Also, I begin to hear the birds, some calling stridently and some beautifully. If I hear a siren (which I do once in a while) I say a prayer which really means I am trying to remember the blessing and healing of God. I am trying, you could say, to make things rhyme with God. And so the birds, bless them, sing and call, and we are brought into the light.

Written by Rebecca Newth

Rebecca Newth is a long-time member of St. Paul’s and sings in the choir.