Hello everyone, welcome back! My name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
Today is Thursday, October 17th, and guess what?
It’s my birthday! And we’ll be reading Luke 11, 47-54.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Luke 11, 47-54.
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.
So you are witnesses and content to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.
Therefore, also the wisdom of God said, I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute.
What the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world may be required of the generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.
Yet I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.
Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge.
You did not enter yourselves, and you are hindrance of those who are entering.
As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak of many things, lying in wait for him to catch him in something he might say.
When you have a big decision to make, what do you do to help you make it?
Do you pray and ask for direction?
Do you have a close friend or family member that you can talk to to figure things out?
I like to talk to my mom and dad when I need help or advice about something.
I ask my dad, mom, and brother, who they turn to for advice.
My mom said she talks through things with my dad, and sometimes she likes to read stories about saints to see if they can offer help, and of course our mother Mary.
My brother said he asks my dad for advice, and my dad said he likes my mom, sometimes his dad, and definitely God.
What if we asked these people we are close to for advice and didn’t listen?
I think that would be hurtful and kind of selfish.
Jesus would say, woe to us! Let’s listen to good advice and become better people.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear God, thank you for being with us always and for knowing what we need, even before we ask.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow, scattering more flowers.
See ya!