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Mosaic Series – In God’s Image – “Jabez: The Nobody, Somebody”

Written by Patricia Williams-Long Franklin

Invocation

Wonderful and generous God, you created us in your image. Thank you. Help us to live into your hopes and trust. Help us to be somebody in your image even when we are ordinary people going about our lives. Help us in the time of trial and in the times of joy and all the in-between times. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

1 CHRONICLES 4:9, 10

THE NAME JABEZ MEANS pain or sorrow. Is it just possible that he was less than perfect in appearance, presentation, or had some other form of “disability”? During the times of Jabez, names were representative of the “man” and hopes and aspirations of the parent for the child. You’ve no doubt heard of the boy named Sue? Now, here is the boy named Pain, for Jabez was born in sorrow.

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Encountering the Disabled God

Reprinted from The Other Side

Written by Nancy Eiesland

I have been part of several congregations whose practice of receiving Eucharist includes filing to the front of the sanctuary and kneeling at the communion rail. Often, because I am either in a wheelchair or using crutches, an usher alerts me that I need not go forward for the Eucharist. Instead, I am offered the sacrament at my seat after everyone else has been served.

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