Hello everyone, my name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily gospels together.
Let’s get started! Today is Thursday, November 7th, and we will be reading Luke 15, 1-10.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Luke 15, 1-10.
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him, and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.
So he told them this parable, What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep, which was lost.
Just so I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?
And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I have lost.
Just so I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
I have this memory of one time when my mom, me, and my brother, a lot younger, were grocery shopping and my mom lost her wallet that attached to her phone case.
She was really worried because we looked everywhere in the car, we went back to the store and asked them to call if they found it, and it really made her upset.
A little while later, we were playing pretend with her play kitchen, and my brother had my mom’s wallet in his pretend shopping cart.
Can you imagine how my mom felt when he found it?
And I want to know, how in the world did my brother have it?
Like in today’s reading, the woman and shepard get the coin and sheep back with them.
Then they rejoice.
And in the same way we belong to God, always.
We are never lost.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear God, thank you for being our family and for loving us so much that we belong to you.
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!