Verse and Voice 12/03/2021

December 3, 2021

Verse of the day

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.
Matthew 23:23

Voice of the day

And when they bombed other people’s houses, we / protested / but not enough, we opposed them but not / enough. I was / in my bed, around my bed America / was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.

Ilya Kaminsky, “We Lived Happily During the War”

Prayer of the day

Show us how to be instruments of justice, mercy, and faith. Let my actions be wholehearted and sincere.