Today's Daily Lesson comes from 2 Kings chapter 13 verses 20 and 21:
20 So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year. 21 As a man was being buried, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha; as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he came to life and stood on his feet.
Yesterday we lost one of the giants in Baptist life, my childhood pastor and dear friend Hardy Clemons. Tributes and memorials to Hardy have flooded my Facebook feed this morning. I offered my own to Hardy yesterday.
This morning's Lesson reminds us that the power of a great person's life does not end with their death. The fire in their bones still warms, and even ignites.
Yesterday a friend sent me Maya Angelou poem "When Great Trees Fall", the final stanza of which offers us these words for these times:
"And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed."
NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible this year. Tomorrow's Lesson is 2 Kings 14 and 2 Chronicles 25.
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