Sacred Scriptures: Wisdom Readings

Over the next five weeks in worship, we will be focusing our time together on the scriptures that people in our congregation named as sacred to them--verses and stories that have shaped them in their faith, that have stuck with them over time.  Because five weeks is not enough time to cover all the stories and passages people named, each day (except Sundays) one passage that was named by some people but that did not make the "Top 5" will be featured here, with an accompanying image and questions for reflection.  May this be a chance for you to re-encounter long-known texts and to discover new ones that are sacred to others and may become sacred to you!

Proverbs 3:27, 28

27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in your power to do it.
28 Do not say to your neighbor, ‘Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it’—when you have it with you.


Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help. 11Again, if two lie together, they keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone? 12And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

• What do you have that you might be called to share?  
• What might you be withholding that it is in your power to give?
• When have you been lifted up or strengthened by another?