together, monday

Monday, June 30

Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God.

Opening Prayer: All praise and thanks to thee, most merciful God, for adopting us as thine own children, for incorporating us into thy holy Church, and for making us worthy to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.  Grant us, we pray, all things necessary for our common life, and bring us all to be of one heart and mind within thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen. (The Book of Common Prayer)

Scripture Reading for the Day: Ecclesiastes 4:7-12

Reading for Reflection:

 

Two people, three people, ten people may be in living touch with one another through Him who underlies their separate lives.  This is an astounding experience, which I can only describe but cannot explain in the language of science.  But in vivid experience of divine Fellowship it is there.  We know that these souls are with us, lifting their lives and ours continuously to God and opening themselves, with us, in steady and humble obedience to Him.  It is as if the boundaries of our self were enlarged, as if we were within them and as if they were within us.  Their strength, given to them by God, becomes our strength, and our joy, given to us by God, becomes their joy.  In confidence and love we live together in Him. (A Testament of Devotion by Thomas Kelly)

Reflection and Listening: silent and written

Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself

             

Closing Prayer: God build your community.  From brokenness and indifference build love and caring, for you, for each other, for your creation.  God build your community.  From self centredness and independence build friendship and compassion for the marginalized, the abandoned and the despised.  God build you community.  From mistrust and misunderstanding build unity and togetherness for other peoples, religions and nations.  God build your community.  May we build together your living community, bound together by love and joy, interrelated to all God’s people, to the earth and all creation. (A Celtic Prayer)