Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: I feel your love as you hold me to your sacred
heart, my beloved Jesus, my God, my Master, but I feel, too, the need I have of
your tenderness, and your caress because of my infinite weakness.
~Charles
de Foucauld
Scripture Reading for the Day: Ephesians 3:14-21
Readings for Reflection:
We spend most of our
lives trying to make things happen for ourselves and for people we love. But life is not reduced to what you give or
know or achieve. Nor is it reduced to
your mistakes, your failures, or your sin.
Life isn’t even defined by whom you love. Rather, it is defined by the God who loves
you. In other words, you are not the
central character—not even of your own life’s story. This is not meant to demean you; it is meant
to set you free. (Sacred Thirst by M. Craig Barnes)
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 Thou who ordered this wondrous world, and
who knowest all things in earth and heaven:
So fill our hearts with trust in thee that by night and day, at all
times and in all seasons, we may without fear commit all that we have and hope
to be to thy never-failing love, for this life and the life to come; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (The
Book of Worship)
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