When we think we need to be in control of everything, we become anxious about our capacity to control.  Letting our sense of control go and trusting in God and the provision that God has offered seems so terribly hard. What happens when we lose track of the fact that we’re part of the magnificently interconnected system, and we begin to imagine that we can, or even that we must function on our own?

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Leviticus 26:3-22, 34-35, 40-45

Resources

• BibleWorm podcast 
• Blessing: Adapted by Liz from RCA Prayer for Godspeed and Farewell
• Image by Felix Mittermeier on pexels 
• Voices Together Hymn: 145, Touch the Earth Lightly Text: Shirley Erena Murray (Aotearoa New Zealand), © 1992 Hope Publishing Co.  Music: Swee Hong Lim (Canada); arr. Tamryn Parker-Carver (USA), © 2005 Hope Publishing Co. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.