Sermon | Sunday, April 25, 2021 | The Psalmist Prays
This past week an Indionesian Submarine went missing . The German-made submarine lost contact during a military exercise in the Bali Strait early on Wednesday morning. Hopes of finding any of the crew alive had already dimmed Saturday, when debris including a bottle of grease, fuel, part of a torpedo launcher, part of a metal tube, and prayer mats were found floating in the sea. I cannot imagine what it was like for those rescuers to find the prayer mats floating in the sea. Prayer mats that were used for kneeling to give thanks and offer blessings and pray for peace. Prayer mats that were evidence not of War but of human beings seeking a better way. Prayer mats that belonged to human beings created in the image of God who now have their Eternal rest at the bottom of the sea. As I read about the search for the sub, I imagined those sailors in a darkened submarine praying, just like my grandfather did nearly 80 years ago. I pray those sailors now have peace, no matter what side of the ...
