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Monday, July 15, 2013

shaped by the word, day 1

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

Opening Prayer:
Saving God, you set your heart on us and made us your own.  May we listen with the ear of our hearts to the many ways your Word and your love will be present to us and formed in us this day.  We ask this through Jesus, the Word made flesh.  Amen.  (The Work of God)

Psalm for the Week: Psalm 1

Scripture for the Day: Colossians 3:12-17 

Reading for Reflection:

The stories of Scripture are stories about where we come from and where we are going as much as the story of our immigrant past is; and here too, if we are to understand what they mean—what they mean to us, mean for us, mean about us—we have to try to get inside them somehow.  Through whatever imagination, intuition, human compassion we can muster, we have to stand where these people stood and feel what they felt: to sail in that little boat as the wind freshened and the waves started to heave; to bury our own faces in our hands before the terrible darkness of that tomb or the sight of that great city being laid waste.  (A Room Called Remember by Frederick Buechner)


Take in fully, gently, and carefully what you are reading.  Taste it and digest it as you read.  Use the scripture passage to sense the presence of the Lord, you stay with the passage until you have sensed the very heart of what you have read…your purpose is to take everything from the passage that unveils the Lord to you. (Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ by Jeanne Guyon)


Reflection and Listening: silent and written

Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself

Song for the Week: Lord, Speak to Me


Lord, speak to me that I may speak
In living echoes of Thy tone;
As Thou hast sought, so let me seek
Thy erring children lost and lone.


O lead me, Lord, that I may lead
The wandering and the wavering feet;
O feed me, Lord, that I may feed
Thy hungering ones with manna sweet.

 
O teach me, Lord, that I may teach
The precious things Thou dost impart;
And wing my words, that they may reach
The hidden depths of many a heart.

 
O fill me with Thy fullness, Lord,
Until my very heart o’erflow
In kindling thought and glowing word,

Thy love to tell, Thy praise to show.
 
O use me, Lord, use even me,
Just as Thou wilt, when, and where,
Until Thy blessed face I see,

Thy rest, Thy joy, Thy glory share.
 
Lord, speak to me that I may speak
In living echoes of Thy tone.


Closing Prayer:
O Lord, Thou didst strike my heart with Thy Word and I loved Thee.
                                                                               ~St. Augustine

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