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: John 10:1-18
Reading for Reflection:
It’s true, Lord, that you are always thinking of
us. It’s true from the beginning of
time, before we existed, even before the world existed, You have been dreaming
of me, thinking of me, loving me. Not
assembly line, but unique, the first one so made, and the last, indispensable
to humanity. It’s true that you have an
eternal plan for me alone, a wonderful plan that you have always cherished in
your heart, as a father thinks over the smallest details in the life of his
little one still unborn. It’s true that,
always bending over me, you guide me to bring your plan about, light on my path
and strength for my soul. It’s true that
you are saddened when I stray or run away, but that you hasten to pick me up if
I stumble or fall.
Lord,
you make bald heads, but above all beautiful lives, You, the divine Attentive
One, the divine Patient One, the divine Present One, see that at no time I
forget your presence. I don’t ask you to
bless what I have decided to do, but give me the grace to discover and to live
what you have dreamed for me.
Lord,
living in your grace, let me share a little, through
the attention I give to others, your loving care
for us. Let me, on my knees, adore in
them the mystery of your created love. Let me respect your idea of
them without trying to impose my own. May I allow them to follow the path
that you have marked out for them without trying to take them along mine. May
I realize that they are indispensable to the world, and that I can’t do without
the least of them. May I never tire of looking at them
and enriching myself with the treasures you have entrusted to them. Help
me to praise you in their journeyings, to find you in their lives.
Grant that not an instant of their
existence go by, not a hair of their heads fall, by me, as by you, unheeded. (Prayers of Life by
Michael Quoist)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)
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