Daily Worship

The Story

Fyfe November 01, 2016 0 0

Genesis 28: 10-22

Jacob’s dream at Bethel

10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. 11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the Lord, and he said: ‘I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.’

16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, ‘Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.’ 17 He was afraid and said, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.’

18 Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. 19 He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.

20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, ‘If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear 21 so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord will be my God 22 and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.’

While this is a relatively new song it captures a memory of driving with my eldest daughter on a trip up to Wester Ross. She had completed University, was due to graduate and we took this time together - an adventure to a place we had not been before. 

It was a  wonderful trip exploring around Assynt - Lochinver, Stoer, Achiltibuie. There are of course the stories of things we saw and that happened. It became a place and a time of good memories that we still often speak about.


As we drove we played Runrig, which seemed to fit the setting. However while this new Runrig song ‘The Story’ gathers up this particular memory, it also gathers other places and times of significance like it. Those people, times and places that have significance  as part of our family story and memory - 


“And I can't help feeling it will always be  

The story of the life inside of me.” 

(The Story, Runrig)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbQq7N0RRWM


Prayer
 

Lord you weave my story and that of family together in wonderful ways.

Thank you for photographs that capture a moment,

for stories shared that cause laughter and tears,

that warm the heart again.

For songs of remembrance,

that cause memories to rise like the sun on my heart and mind,

that take me back to that time, that place with those dear to me.

The images that stay with me 

and are a part of the story within me now.
 

And this story that is mine,

the remembrance that now runs so deep for me and between us,

is also woven into Your story Lord.


But now I'm climbing the high mountain of years

With each blemish and schism coming on the world

But the day of renewal will come with certainty

Just like the day when I first felt your love

 

Amen, amen, amen.