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Broken and the Blessed Week 2, Day 2

by David Joynt on January 16, 2017


DAY 9

I SAMUEL 18:1; II SAMUEL 1:17

Our capacity to experience sorrow is thus a measure of our capacity to love deeply and engage meaningfully with others and with our broken world. If we achieve real connection and intimacy we will feel genuine loss. In a world of accidents, illness, conflict, death and disappointment, where losses are real and inevitable, mourning is a mark of spiritual maturity. In today’s scripture David mourns the loss of his dear friend, Jonathan, someone who had been loving and loyal. David is a King and a warrior who is not afraid to grieve.

 

Who do you remember with tears and thankfulness?

 

Spend some time remembering a friend or relative whom you’ve lost and committed into God’s hands.

 

Pray for someone you know who has suffered a loss.

 

FAMILY TIME—

Spend some time remembering a friend or relative whom you’ve lost and committed into God’s hands.

 

Tags: beatitudes, devotional, sorrow, the broken and the blessed

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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