Comfort: God’s Love Revisited

Romans 8:31-39

No, in all these things 
In the washing dishes, folding laundry, rushing out the door, shopping,
taxi-ing the kids, the grind of work

we are more than victorious 
in the remembered hug, pink sunrise, holding hands, new ideas, list accomplished, anger dissolved, patience-chosen moments

through him who loved us. 
through it all – Jesus loved us.

For I am convinced that neither death, 
Not dust, ashes, sadness, valley of the shadow

nor life,
or the ebb and flow of our earthly existence,

nor angels,
or spiritual realms, unseen powers, or strangers

nor rulers, 
or tyrants or democracy or kings

nor things present, 
or the immediacy of a baby’s touch, or a too-long painful illness, 

nor things to come, 
or the foggy windshields of future life

nor powers, 
or the no’s and yeses of each day, so often just beyond our control

nor height, 
or joyful sun by day or stars at night

nor depth, 
or deep sobs and the flow of the tide

nor anything else in all creation 
or the mountains pushing up through the earth and the trees stretching for the endless sky, or the swirls of the universe and the microcosms of cells and matter

will be able to separate us 
will be able to remove or force us away

from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
from God’s everlasting Love!

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Some Comfort and Joy was developed as a devotional resource that follows the rhythms and seasons of the liturgical year from an Anabaptist-Mennonite perspective.

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