Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: O
Christ Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness,
give us the sense of your presence, your love, and your strength. Help us to have perfect trust in your
protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry
us, for, living close to you, we shall see your hand, your purpose, your will
through all things.
~St.
Ignatius
Scripture Reading for the Day: John 14:1-4
Reading for Reflection:
The story was of a poor
woman who had been carried triumphantly through a life of unusual sorrow. She was giving the history of her life to a
kind visitor on one occasion, and at the close the visitor said, feelingly, “O
Hannah, I do not see how you could bear so much sorrow!” “I did not bear it,”
was the quick reply; “the Lord bore it for me.” “Yes,” said the visitor “that
is the right way. You must take your
troubles to the Lord.” “Yes,” replied Hannah, “but we must do more than that; we
must leave them there. Most people,” she
continued, “take their burdens to Him, but they bring them away with them
again, and are just as worried and unhappy as ever. But I take mine, and I leave them with Him,
and come away and forget them. And if the
worry comes back, I take it to Him again; I do this over and over, until at
last I just forget that I have any worries, and am at perfect rest.” (The
Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: O God, who hast been the Refuge of my
fathers through many generations, be my Refuge today in every time and
circumstance of need. Be my Guide
through all that is dark and doubtful.
Be my Strength in time of testing.
Gladden my heart with Thy peace, through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen. (A Diary of Private Prayer by
John Baillie)
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