Evening Meditation for 22 August 2025 sponsored by the Anglican Orthodox communion
Prayer
Romans 8:38-39
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Love is the eternal balm of God that strengthens our souls during hardship and raises our joys to new heights in time of celebration. It is the one true resource which sees us through the pains of death and welcomes us beyond the Banks of Jordan Waters.
As darkness begins to shade the barren wilderness of our earthly lives, it is love of God, family, friends, and country that brightens the dusk and gives us a surpassing comfort that cannot be rendered in human words.
Love is the one thing we carry with us through our borrowed tombs to God and His pristine Gates of Splendor.
Love was not dimmed by the fall of Adam at Eden, but bolstered in mercy and grace by our heavenly benefactor, the god of all mercy and Grace. Love always finds a way, and, in the omniscient love of God, a way was provided for man to return to the favor of God through the redemption made available by the sacrifice of the Son of God – as a Lamb sacrificed from before the foundation of the world.
I am reminded of an old Victorian song my mother used to sing – Loves old Sweet Song – which says:
Just a song at twilight, when the lights are low,
When the flickering shadows softly come and go,
Tho' the heart be weary, sad the day and long,
Still to us at twilight comes Love's old song,
Comes Love's old sweet song.
Well friends, now comes the twilight hour and we may take joy in the fact that we are saved by the Love of God and His endearing provision granted us by His only Begotten Son.
Let us recall the Prayer given in Evening Worship for the family in the Book of common Prayer:
O LORD, support us all the day long, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in thy mercy grant us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last. Amen.
Good night to all.
