Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 0-160

From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it.

I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals. Mark 1:7.

If you’ve done all the work and your leader gets all the glory, praise the Lord! Conversely, if you’re ‘an enabler’ (and the Church desperately needs more of these beautiful people), and, through your encouragement others can be released from their inhibitions or inexperience to do a good job for God and others, and your role is a hidden one, praise the Lord!

In Whittier’s words,

What matter, I or they? Mine or another’s day, So the right word be said, And life the sweeter made?

Lord, today I pray in the fine watchword of the great Lord Shaftesbury, ‘Perish all things, so that Christ be magnified!’ Amen.