SUNDAY, October 9

Isaiah 25:1-9. O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

We have all read stories about the so-called self-made man or self-made woman, that person who started with nothing and picked himself or herself up by the bootstraps to become a success in the world. We love to read these Horatio Alger stories and perhaps even revel in them.

They are wonderful stories. Some of them are even true. And they are many. They are also our story. Each of us can recount times when we have worked very hard on something that seemed impossible and made it a success. We were proud of what we accomplished and rightly so. We might even be role models for others.

Yet as proud as we may be for what we have accomplished, not to give our God some of the credit would be to overlook the fact that, were it not for God’s giving us the gifts, we could have accomplished nothing. We may tie the laces but God gives the boots.

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PRAY for the Diocese of Swaziland (Southern Africa)

Ps 106:1-6, 19-23 and Exodus 32:1-14—OR—Ps 23 and Isaiah 25:1-9; Philippians 4:1-9; Matthew 22:1-14

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