Thanksgiving Sunday

Amidst a colourful harvest display and with wonderful hymns of praise, we gather to lift up gratitude to God for life and God’s providing hand through all its seasons – ‘We plough the fields and scatter the good seed on the ground, but it is fed and watered by God’s almighty hand’. We pause to consider the providence of God.

We continue our journey through some of the great stories of scripture, assisted by a current exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre of Queen’s University. This morning we hear the moving scene of Joseph, who through ill-treatment by his own family and injustice afflicted by others has found himself in Egypt, responsible for distributing grain in a time of famine, revealing not only himself to his brothers but also God who has been at work, unacknowledged but undeniably, for good – ‘God sent me before you to preserve life’ (Genesis 45:5).

Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert, Joseph Selling Grain in Egypt, around 1650, oil on canvas. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Bader, 1980 (23-038)

Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert, Joseph Selling Grain in Egypt, around 1650, oil on canvas.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Bader, 1980 (23-038)

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