Opening Prayer:
Dear Jesus,
Who am I really? What do you see in me that you would move heaven and earth to capture my heart? My life feels like a collection of other people’s expectations and disappointments. I do not even know anymore who I truly am. Reveal to me my true identity, my true place in Your story. Give me grace to hear your voice; shut out all other voices, and let me hear from you alone. I ask this in your name. Amen. (The Sacred Romance Workbook by John Eldredge)
Psalm for the Week: Psalm 62
Scripture for the Day: Isaiah 62:1-12
Reading for Reflection:
He
is the one who can tell us the reason for our existence, our place in the
scheme of things, our real identity. It
is an identity we can’t discover for ourselves, that others can’t discover in
us—the mystery of who we really are. How
we have chased around the world for answers to that riddle, looked in the eyes
of others for some hint, some clue, hunted in the multiple worlds of pleasure
and experience and self-fulfillment for some glimpse, some revelation, some
wisdom, some authority to tell us our right name and our true destination.
But there was, and is, only One who can
tell us this: the Lord himself. And he
wants to tell us, he has made us to know our reason for being and to be led by
it. But it is a secret he will entrust
to us only when we ask, and then in his own way and his own time. He will whisper it to us not in the mad rush
and fever of our striving and our fierce determination to become someone, but
rather when we are content to rest in him, to put ourselves into his keeping,
into his hands. Most delightfully of
all, it is a secret he will tell us slowly and sweetly, when we are willing to
spend time with him: time with him who is beyond all time. (Clinging
by Emilie Griffin)Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Song for the Week: Arise (by Ryan Long)
Beloved can you hear me
I call across eternity
I am your God
Are you listening?
Arise my Love and Come with me
Arise my Love and Come with me
Arise my Love and Come with me
Your heart is sore. Your feet are weary.
Your hope is gone. Your head is hung.
Leave behind the nothing
That you've become.
Arise my love and come with me.
Arise my love and come with me.
Arise my love and come with me.
Arise and come and become what you believe.
Arise and come and become what you believe.
Lay down your burdens my love and come with me.
Arise my love and come with me.
Arise my Love and Come with me
Closing Prayer:
O God, our Heavenly Father, who created us beautifully and wonderfully, may we always look to You for our value and worth, remembering that we are a unique expression of your infinite love, care, and creativity. Help us, O Lord, to see ourselves as you see us—objects of your extravagant love and tender affection. Through Christ. Amen. (JLB)
O God, our Heavenly Father, who created us beautifully and wonderfully, may we always look to You for our value and worth, remembering that we are a unique expression of your infinite love, care, and creativity. Help us, O Lord, to see ourselves as you see us—objects of your extravagant love and tender affection. Through Christ. Amen. (JLB)
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