God.

The year is halfway done.
The calendar year, anyway.

And some of us can barely remember the beginning of this year.

There has been death or diagnoses,
there has been over-commitment or under-valuation
of our ideas or belongings or energy or selves.

There were more good intentions than capacity to follow through.

We are weary, some of us.

We would love a new life, as Paul wrote about.
We would love to be alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Free from sin, free from fear, free from various and sundry kinds of worry.

It’s interesting, God, that Paul says “count yourselves dead to sin and alive to God.”
As if it is something that is true, waiting for us to acknowledge, to lean into, to live out.
Not another burden to live up to but a burden to release.

That would be delightful, God.

Help us know that it is true.

That you care.

Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

+++

Reflecting Romans 6:1-11