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In your charity, prayers for my family. An extended Sabbath sign out from work& social media so I can be emotionally present as our mother passes from this life to the next. Productivity is my drug of choice. But we are not made just to labor, but for love. Pray that death be “gentle as nightfall.”

A white woman stands next to a sign for coffee at Wawa that says:
Wawa
Ice cold BuT
EMOTIONALLY AVAILABLE.
Iced Caromel
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Two white womens and a very cute dog stand on the beach at sunset

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 12h

Praying today with Luke 6- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, I know it’s been here all along, but I’ve never noticed before that the mass healing & the blessing are tied together. We preachers cut these two passages apart. Healing and blessing, here and now. Bless us now. Heal us now. You long for us to heal.

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ow during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. " And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: ' Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, '5 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot,
"and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. '7 He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. is They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. " And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.
Then he looked up at his disciples and said:
"Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 "Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 2 "Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. 23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. 24 "But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. 25 "Woe to you

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 01/10/2026

Praying today with Hosea 5- let us pray 🙏: O Lord what a mess the people are, and how much You just want us to return to You. I’m sorry. You tell us “I desire steadfast love, and not sacrifices,” but we keep sacrificing. I’m sorry. Help us. Come like the spring rain, like the fall nor’easter.

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wrath like water. " Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after vanity. "Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim, and like rottenness to the house of Judah. ' When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound. " For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue. I will return again to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face. In their distress they will beg my favor:
"Come, let us return to the LorD; for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up. 'After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. " Let us know, let us press on to know the LorD; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth."
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early.
› Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light. For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 30/09/2026

All I’m saying is the other scripture reading set for this morning in Hosea was all about “whoredom” and then the Globe runs this massive story about the 30+ men who exchanged 400 or more text messages to buy sex www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/30/m...

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The First Lesson
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Hosea 4:11-19
A Reading from the Book of the Prophet Hosea.
WHOREDOM. Wine and new wine take away the
understanding.
My people consult a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have played the whore, forsaking their God. ' They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and make offerings upon the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. 'I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with whores, and sacrifice with temple prostitutes; thus a people without understanding comes to ruin. ' Though you play the whore, O Israel, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not enter into Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear,
"As the LorD lives." " Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture? ' Ephraim is joined to idols- let him alone. 1 When their drinking is ended, they indulge in sexual orgies; they love lewdness more than their glory. " A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 30/09/2026

Praying today with Luke 5- let us pray 🙏: oh Jesus, You friend of the tax collectors and sinners and sick, bless me this day. Forgive me for caring what others think Your banquet looks like. Too many attempts to sew new patches on old cloth. Gather me with Your beloved, broken people today. Feast

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A Reading from the Gospel According to Luke.
FTER this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, "Follow me." 28 And he got up, left everything, and followed him. 2 Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house; and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them. 30 The Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying,
"Why do you eat and drink
with tax collectors and sinners?" " Jesus answered,
"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; 32l have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance." 33 Then they said to him, "John's disciples,
like the
disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink. 3* Jesus said to them,
"You cannot make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?
35 The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days." 3° He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 3* But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, 'The old is good."

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 29/09/2026

Praying today on the feast of Archangel Michael and All Angels, with Daniel 12- Let us pray 🙏: Lord, I don’t know if this is the time of great anguish foretold, but send down those angels and write my name in the Book of Life, please. I want to be awakened to life everlasting; make us like the stars

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The First Lesson
Daniel 12:1-3
A Reading from the Book of Daniel.
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BiT that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish, such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book. " Many of those who sleep in the dust of the carth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people.
Thanks be to God.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 29/09/2026

Zucchini says it’s time to put away the toys and go to bed, y’all. Empire won’t overthrow itself unless we are well rested.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 28/09/2026

Final results of the persimmon cardamom cake. It came out good, y’all!

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 28/09/2026

Praying today with Luke 5- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, I know that feeling of being asked to do just one thing more, and being so tired that I fall to my knees. Help me know what are the requests from You to follow, and what I can leave on the shore. I do not want to sink. I will let down my nets for You

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A Reading from the Gospel According to Luke.
ONCE while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd
was
pressing in on him to hear the word of God, 2 he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were
washing their nets. 3 He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boar. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." 5 Simon answered, "Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing.
Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets." When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!" 9 For he and all who were with him were amazed at the carch of fish that they had taken; 0 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Then Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people." " When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 27/09/2026

Praying today with Matthew 21- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, Your ways are not our ways and for this I give thanks. Truly, You tell us, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God first. Not the high and mighty. Not the rich and powerful. But as You see. Flip my world today.

WHEN he entered the temple, the chief priests
and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?" 24 Jesus said to them, "I will also ask you one question; if you tell me the answer, then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin?" And they argued
with one another,
"If we say, "From
heaven, he will say to us, Why, then, did you not believe him?' 2' But if we say, 'Of human origin,' we are afraid of the crowd, for all regard John as a prophet." 27 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
"What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' 29 He answered, 'I will not,' but later he changed his mind and went. 30 The father went to the second and said the same, and he answered, 'I go, sir, but he did not go. 3' Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said,
"The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you. 3*For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him, and even after you saw it you did not change your minds and believe him.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 26/09/2026

Sabbath Sign Out: it’s ok to stop. When people ask how they can help, it’s ok to give clear answers. It’s ok to ask too. It’s ok to awe at the fading light. May your Sukkah be sturdy in the storm. Rest. It’s ok to rest, beloved.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 25/09/2026

Nor’easter grocery apocalypse at the Trader Joe’s in Brookline. The line is three turns deep. I’m regretting my life choices.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 25/09/2026

Praying today with Esther 8- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, even though she and Mordecai are now good, Queen Esther asks, “how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming upon my people?” For we who are near power, how can we stand idle? Give me the courage of Esther to use my proximity for my people.

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ĐN THAT day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. 2 Then the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. So Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Then Esther spoke again to the king; she fell at his feet, weeping and pleading with him to avert the evil design of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. 4 The king held out the golden scepter to Esther, S and Esther rose and stood before the king. She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have won his favor, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I have his approval, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote giving orders to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming on my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?" 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to the Jew Mordecai, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he plotted to lay hands on the Jews. & You may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king. and seal it with the king's ring; for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 25/09/2026

I could not for the life of me figure out why my homemade Caesar salad was so meh. I even used anchovy paste. Then I realized I forgot garlic, of all things. Garlic! Lord, forgive me.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 24/09/2026

Praying today with Esther 7- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, Sister Esther did not get the memo about staying sweet and polite at dinner. Truth telling is on the menu. Help me know today when I need to speak and when I need to listen, especially to You. What more freedom is to be found in saying the truth?

The First Lesson
Esther 7:1-10
A Reading from the Book of Esther.
So THiking and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. On the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther,
"What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."
3 Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me-that is my petition-and the lives of my people-that is my request. + For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; but no enemy can
compensate for this damage to the king." S Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?"
6 Esther said, "A foe and enemy, this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
The king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that the king had determined to destroy him. * When the

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 24/09/2026

Candying the persimmons we snagged from a community orchard for a persimmon cardamom cake cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 24/09/2026

My people: we can promise our loving Lord’s gracious return without being weird about it, ok? This ain’t it.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 22/09/2026

I know, I know, late stage capitalism and fall of empire, etc- plastic straws choke the birds, 1k calories in a cup sold as a drink and poly cotton blends are an abomination- all are signs of the apocalypse BUT LLBEAN SWEATER ON MY DUNKS ARE SO CUTE.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 22/09/2026

Praying today with Esther 5- let us pray 🙏: Oooh Haman is big mad. He has every good thing except Modrecai standing to respect him. How often, O Lord, do I have so much goodness and I let that one thing get stuck in my craw? Let me see today all that I have, all that is and focus on the good today.

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shall be granted you. And what is your request!
Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." 7 Then Esther said, "This is my petition and request: ® If I have won the king's favor, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and then I will do as the king has said."
Haman went out that day happy and in good spirits. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and observed that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was infuriated with Mordecai; 1° nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home. Then he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh, "and Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the ministers of the king. "Haman added, "Even Queen Esther let no one but myself come with the king to the banquet that she prepared.
Tomorrow also 1 am invited by her, together with the king. " Yet all this does me no good so long as I see the jew Mordecai sitting at the king's gate."
14 Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go with the king to the banquet in good spirits." This advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 22/09/2026

For all you cultural Italians like me, may I highly recommend the Market Basket DIY cannoli chips and ricotta filling? Lets everyone in your house decide their own proportions.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 20/09/2026

This morning I preached at Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square that has been sharing their space with the Jose Mateo dance company for decades! Also they had an FBI informant in their pews in 1986 & FOIA’ed the gov. Cc: @joshuaeaton.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/1986/03/03/o...

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 20/09/2026

Praying today with Matthew 20- let us pray 🙏: O Lord this one hits, “Are you envious because I’m generous?” Yes? Too often I think that if I show up first and work the hardest, I am the holiest. But your kingdom is not like the work of this world. Help me truly believe in the logic of your mercy.

agreeing with the laborers tor a denarius tor the day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 When he went out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and he said to them, "You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right? So they went. S When he went out again about noon and about three o'clock, he did the same. " And about five o'clock he went out and found others standing around, and he said to them, Why are you standing here idle all day? 7 They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, "You also go into the vineyard? * When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first? When those hired about five o'clock came, each of them received a denarius. ° Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius. "And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, " saying, "These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat? B But he replied to one of them, Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?
14 Take what
belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. '5 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?' 16 So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 19/09/2026

Sabbath sign out: leftover salmon and lemon potatoes from an event with the Greek Orthodox. My family knows what church I’ve been at by the leftovers people send me home with. God is a god of abundance. Go and do likewise. Take that abundance. Take that rest. Share. Thank you for sharing, beloved.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 19/09/2026

I managed to take my wife’s EarPods out of her pockets before going through the wash, but apparently not her pistachios? Behold, four very clean and dry pistachios.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 18/09/2026

Yesterday in Quincy, I inadvertently ended up at an evangelical gas station. Ten Commandments right at eye level!

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 18/09/2026

Some of y’all don’t know that these are 100% pure hits of the Holy Ghost and it shows.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 18/09/2026

Praying today with John 12- let us pray 🙏: oooh wee, have truer words ever been spoken? “for they loved human glory more than the glory that comes from God.” Searching for that human glory gets us tangled up every time. I’m so sorry Lord. I’m highly susceptible. Help me get my head on right. Glory.

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The Second Lesson
John 12:36b-43
A Reading from the Gospel According to John.
WHiLE you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid
from them.
Although he had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him. 3ö This was to fulfill the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
39 And so they could not believe, because Isaiah also said, 40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not look with their eyes, and understand with their heart and turn- and I would heal them." 4' Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke about him.
Nevertheless many, even of the authorities, believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved human glory more than the glory that comes from God.
Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people.
Thanks be to God.
nanno hantiaa

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 17/09/2026

A foretaste of the kingdom of heaven! Yesterday, I went to the 30th anniversary party of CommonCathedal, the #unhoused #church in #Boston that kicked off a nationwide movement of congregations led by people who live outside. it changed how people think of #homeless theology commoncathedral.org

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 17/09/2026

Praying today on the feast of St Hildegard of Bingen with John 12- Let us pray 🙏: “Walk in the light while you have it,” you say Jesus. The days are getting shorter and I keep trying to shine my own light. Let me be where I am right now and not anticipate what is ahead. Keep me in Your light, Lord.

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The Second Lesson
John 12:27-36a
A Reading from the Gospel According to John.
ow my soul is troubled. And what 3 should I say-'Father, save me from this
hour? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." 29 The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said,
"An angel has spoken to him." 3° Jesus answered,
"This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. 3' Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the carth, will draw all people to myself." 33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. 34 The crowd answered him, "We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?" 3> Jesus said to them, "The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going. 3 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid from them.
Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people.
Thanks be to God.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 16/09/2026

Praying today with Job 42- let us pray 🙏: “then the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends.” Well, how about them apples? Nice, tight little ending of the story here Lord! Restore the fortunes of the faithful when we pray for our friends. Keep us keeping on, even now.

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A Reading from the Book of Job.
THEN Job answered the LORD: 2"I know that & you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 3 Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me! I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; " therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
After the LorD had spoken these words to Job, the LorD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. ® Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done." 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them; and the LoRD accepted Job's prayer.
And the LorD restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the LorD gave Job twice as much as he had before. " Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before and they are bread

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 16/09/2026

This may be an Aji dulce pepper I’ve grown, or we’re about to play a very spicy game.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 15/09/2026

Praying today with Job 41- let us pray 🙏: What are we doing here, Lord? Brother Job was trying to reach beyond his grasp, eh? You are God and I am not. Forgive me for trying to wrangle the Leviathan like I made Creation. Make me right-sized this day. You alone are the Lord. You be in charge please.

The First Lesson
Job 40:1,41:1-11
A Reading from the Book of Job.
ND the LORD said to Job:
"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down its tongue with a cord? "Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3 Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you? 4 Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant forever?
5 Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you put it on leash for your girls? "Will traders bargain over it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? Can you fill its skin with harpoons, or its head with fishing spears? ® Lay hands on it; think of the battle; you will not do it again!? Any hope of capturing it will be disappointed; were not even the gods overwhelmed at the sight of it?
10 No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up. Who can stand before it?
Who can confront it and be safe? —under the whole heaven, who?
Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people.
Thanks be to God.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 14/09/2026

Praying today with John 3 on Holy Cross Day- let us pray 🙏: Healing is Your children’s portion, but we spend so much time on John 3:16 signs at football games that we never read John 3:17, O Lord. You did not come to condemn but to save. Save us from our foolish ways. Lift our eyes up. Heal us. Amen

The Second Lesson
John 3:11-17
A Reading from the Gospel According to John.
ERY truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. "If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? " No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. '4 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ' that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people.
Thanks be to God.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 13/09/2026

My kingdom for a bot that tweets out this journal article anytime someone posts about #football / NFL: “At minimum, nearly a quarter of all former #NFL players who died during 2016-21 had CTE neuropathology at death. “ www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

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At minimum, nearly a quarter of all former NFL players who died during 2016-21 had CTE neuropathology at death. Among NFL player brain donors, dementia diagnosed based on records before death was common and associated with stage IV CTE.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 13/09/2026

In traffic yesterday, I asked this driver if he was transporting Egyptian sarcophagi. He wasn’t, but was super amused that I asked.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 13/09/2026

Praying today with Matthew 18- Let us pray 🙏: Wow, Lord, I really don’t want to forgive anyone seventy-seven times. Mercy for me but not for thee? I don’t like Gospel stories about enslavement. But the world You moved in Jesus is not mine, and the kingdom to come is not like mine either. Forgive

HEN Peter came and said to him, "Lord, if my brother or sister sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?"
22 Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.
"For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. 24 When he began the reckoning. one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him, 25 and, as he could not pay, the lord ordered him to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions and payment to be made. 2So the slave fell on his knees before him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything? 2 And out of pity for him, the lord of that slave released him and forgave him the debt. 2 But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him by the throat he said, 'Pay what you owe? 29 Then his fellow slave fell down and pleaded with him,
'Have patience with me, and I will pay you. 3º But he refused; then he went and threw him into prison until he would pay the debt. 3" When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. 32 Then his lord summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 11/09/2026

Praying today with John 11- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, I need a Savior who weeps for their friends. Who can handle the stink of four days of death. Who can put the gossip of the crowd behind them- because I cannot raise myself from the grave. I cannot remove the stone. Come to all who weep, O Lord.

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A Reading from the Gospel According to John.
ow Jesus had not yet come to the village, 2 but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 3" The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him,
"Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. 34 He said,
"Where have you laid him?" They said to him,
"Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus began to weep. 36 So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" 37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" 3ö Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days." 4° Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" 4'So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. 421 knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here. so that they mav believe that vou sent me."

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 10/09/2026

Praying today with John 11- Let us pray 🙏: O Lord as for me and my house, we are deep in the “what ifs?” What if You had come four days earlier Jesus? What if we had made different choices? What if, what if, what if… Sweet Jesus give me the confidence of Sister Martha to know that resurrection comes

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The Second Lesson
John 11:17-29
A Reading from the Gospel According to John.
WHEN Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus
had already been in the tomb four days.
1ö Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, " and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. " Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 2 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him." 23 Jesus said to her,
"Your brother will rise again." 24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, 2 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" 27 She said to him,
"Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world."
28 When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." 29 And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him.
Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people.
Thanks be to God.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 09/09/2026

Praying today with John 11- let us pray 🙏: Lord, can we just own that this is a hot mess of a passage? What is going on here? Jesus doesn’t want to drive at night? We are mixing metaphors and I’m confused. I’m banking on You raising us up, so You’d best come thru. Your time is not my time, I see.

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Qow a certain man was ill, Lazarus of
2. Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. "Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, he whom you love is ill!" 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said,
"This
illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it." Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus,
6 after
having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." " The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?" 9Jesus answered,
"Are
there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. " But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them." " After saying this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him." I The disciples said to him,
"Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right."
13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. ' Then Jesus told them plainly,
"Lazarus is dead. ' For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." 16 Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 08/09/2026

Praying today with Job 29- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, Brother Job remembers the good old days, when he was high on the hog, when princes bowed and children kneeled. How shall I be when the days are dim? When nostalgia is my only friend? Abide with me O Lord, all the days of my life. Let me sing even now

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A Reading from the Book of Job.
Job again took up his discourse and said: 2 Oh,
that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; 3 when his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness; 4 when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent;
5 when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me; "when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
When I went our to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,
& the young men saw
me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood; the nobles refrained from talking, and laid their hands on their mouths; " the voices of princes were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths. "When the car heard, it commended me, and when the eye saw, it approved; " because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper. ' The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 'I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
i6I was a father to the
needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 06/09/2026

Praying today with Exodus 12: let us pray 🙏- O Lord, You save us together. “If a household is too small…” we join with our neighbors. But so often we go at it alone. Forgive us, O God, for trying to save ourselves when You promise to save all peoples together. Bind us together as one. Help us ask.

HE Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 "This month shall mark
for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.
3 Tell the whole
congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who cat of it. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
"You shall keep it
until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. 7 They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall cat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not cat any of it raw or boiled in water but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. ' You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn with fire. "This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the Passover of the Lord. 11 will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human to animal, and on all the gods of Egypt I

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 05/09/2026

Sabbath Sign Out: I believe in the power of sisters, and community that holds us when we can barely hold ourselves. Words that have been worn into prayers by our Ancestors. Brother Job says “For I know that my Redeemer lives… after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God.”

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 04/09/2026

Praying today with Job 19: let us pray 🙏- O God, Brother Job is in it,and yet he proclaims “I know my Redeemer lives!” Thank you, Lord for his testimony of Your endurance even in the thickest trial. I want to know that You live. I want to live looking for You. Even as my heart faints, I am looking

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yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
"know then that God
has put me in the wrong, and closed his net around me. 7 Even when I cry our, 'Violence! I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.
14 My relatives and my close friends have failed me; ' the guests in my house have forgotten me; my serving girls count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
1oI call to my
servant, but he gives me no answer; I must myself plead with him. My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family. I Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me. " All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. " Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! "Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?
"O that my words were written down! O that they were inscribed in a book! 24O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever! 2 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the carth; 2 and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God, 27 whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 03/09/2026

Praying today with John 9- let us pray 🙏: thank you Jesus for correcting bad theology. This man was not born blind because of any sin of his or his parents. And thank you for being One who heals with spit and mud. I need that today when life is in the gutter too. Get in it with us Lord. Make mudpies

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The Second Lesson
John 9:1-17
A Reading from the Gospel According to John.
along, he saw a man blind
from birth.
His disciples asked him,
"Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" 3 Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God's works might be revealed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. S As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world" When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man's eyes, 7 saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see.
The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?" 9 Some were saying, "It is he." Others were saying, "No, but it is someone like him." He kept saying, "I am the man." 10 But they kept asking him, "Then how were your eyes opened?" "He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, Go to Siloam and wash. Then I went and washed and received my sight." 12 They said to him,
"Where is he?" He said, "I do not know."

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 02/09/2026

Praying today with Job 14- let us pray 🙏: O Lord, Brother Job is really in it. I know those days when everything is grim and hope is a tree cut down. I know when the best I can ask for is to be hidden in Sheol, and wait for it all to pass. Remember me, even then, O Lord. Even as the mountains fall.

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it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant. ' But mortals die, and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they? "As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up, so mortals lie down and do not rise again; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake or be roused our of their sleep. Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come. ' You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
For then you would not number my steps, you would not keep watch over my sin;
17 my
transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity. 18"But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place; "9 the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of mortals. 20 You prevail forever against them, and they pass away; you change their countenance, and send them away. " Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed. 2 They feel only the pain of their own bodies, and mourn only for themselves."

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 02/09/2026

Zucchini thanks you for your vote, your love for your trans neighbors Massachusetts, and tells you to now go to bed, #mapoli

A tiny chihuahua with a Americana flag bandada

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 02/09/2026

We’ve hit the “Trader Joe’s salad in the hotel room” level with family in the hospital caregiving. BUT the front desk clerk at is from Afganistán and studying to be a nurse and asked if I needed a hug and gave us tickets for free breakfast and said she’d pray for me. GOD BLESS IMMIGRANTS.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 01/09/2026

Praying today with Job 12- let us pray 🙏: I know I’ve said it before Lord, but I appreciate that you are a God who can have it out. Brother Job is gonna argue this down. For those who deceive have “maxims of ashes and proverbs of clay,” but we who live in fear of Your majesty can rumble with You God

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The First Lesson
Job 12:1,13:3-17,21-27
A Reading from the Book of Job.
HEN Job answered: 3 But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. 4 As for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless physicians. S If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom! Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips. Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him? * Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God? ' Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one person deceives another? 1° He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality. " Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you? "Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may. 4 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand. ' See, he will kill me; I have no hope; but I will defend my ways to his face. " This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him. " Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears. "withdraw your hand far from me, and do not let dread of you terrify me. 2 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 31/08/2026

Praying today with Job 12- let us pray 🙏: O God, grant me the confidence of Job who said to his friends, “But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you.” I sometimes forget that I know what I know. I let the voices of others infiltrate and a shout. Help me hear You and me today.

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The First Lesson
Job 12:1-6,13-25
A Reading from the Book of Job.
HEN Job answered: 2 "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? 41 am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, l am a laughingstock. 5 Those at ease have contempt for misfortune, but it is ready for those whose feet are unstable.
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands. "With God are wisdom and strength; he has counsel and understanding. '4 If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up. 'SIf he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land. " With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his. ' He leads counselors away stripped, and makes fools of judges. 1 He looses the sash of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins. "He leads priests away stripped, and
overthrows the mighty. 20 He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders. "He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong. 2 He

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