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Welcome to the JCPC Daily Reflections Blog. Reflections are daily devotionals authored by JCPC pastors, staff and members and provide insight, guidance and comfort to help you make it through each day. If you’d like to receive Reflections each day via email,  provide your email address.

Friday, July 26 2019

In the documentary Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, author Berry spoke of how divorce describes the state of our world. We're divorced from one another, from our history, from the land. Things that should be whole are split apart. When asked what we should do about this sad fact, Berry said, "We can't put everything back together. We just take two things and put them together." We take two things broken apart and make them one again.

  

"Blessed are the peacemakers," Jesus tells us (Matthew 5:9). To make peace is to bring shalom. And shalom refers to the world being set right. One theologian describes shalom as "universal flourishing, wholeness and delight. . . . [It's] the way things ought to be." Shalom is taking what's broken and making it whole. As Jesus guides, may we strive to make things right. He calls us to be peacemakers, to be the "salt of the earth" and the "light of the world" (vv. 13-14)

 

There are many ways to be peacemakers in the world, but with each may we engage brokenness rather than surrendering to it. In God's power, let's choose to not allow a friendship to die or let a struggling neighborhood languish or yield to apathy and isolation. Let's look for the broken places, trusting God to give us the wisdom and skill to participate in making them whole again.

 

Prayer for Today

There are many broken things around me, God. I don't know where to begin. Will You show me where to start?  Amen.

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