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Father in heaven, there are so many terrible and wonderful things in this passage.

I pray that you would break forth from this word

and that you would speak from it into the needs represented by everybody listening to me and that salvation would come to the lost and that holiness would come to the

worldly and that reconciliation would come to those who are embittered and estranged

with others and that your name now would be made great.

I ask this through Christ.

Amen.

So these last closing words of 2 Timothy

are sad and beautiful and heartbreakingly hope filled.

And if that cluster of words, sad, beautiful, heartbreaking, hope-filled, seems odd, that they don't really go together, then probably you have some hard and helpful

experiences yet to go through in life.

So if I've prayed over this text,

so many things flood to my mind that could be said. It appears to me to be quite a choppy text.

A collection of assorted concerns come to me before winter if you can, bring my cloak from

Troas, watch out for Alexander the Copper Smith.

Nobody stood by me in my last trial.

The Lord stood by me.

Greet, my friends, Priskin Aquila.

Trophamus I left sick, down at Myelitis.

All the brothers greet you, the Lord be with you.

What would you do with all that?

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