Greetings!
What three words?
I have an app installed on my smartphone called “what3words.” It is a proprietary geocode system that is designed to identify any location in the world with a resolution of about 10 feet with three random words. Rather than write out the longitude and latitude coordinates of many digits and symbols, I can use only three words to identify that location.
For example, for the mailbox location at our MDS office in Lititz, Pennsylvania, the three words are “platter.newsreel.relate.” For the entrance to the barn I grew up milking cows, the words are “heaped.ants.swallowing.” If lost, these three words will bring me back.
In the scriptures there are many three-word phrases that are not only poignant and life-affirming, but may also help us navigate together.
In the beginning.
Abide in me.
Praise the Lord.
It is finished.
Lazarus, come out.
It is I.
Alpha and Omega.
God is Love.
Love never fails.
Love endures forever.
Peace be still.
Come, Lord Jesus.
What three word phrases give you life? What brings meaning to you? For MDS, the tagline we use is “Respond, Rebuild, Restore.” It brings people back home. Mennonite. Disaster. Service. I pray that God will continue to work through our volunteers to bring people back home.