Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: Here, Lord, I abandon myself to you. I have tried in every way I could think of to
manage myself, and to make myself what I know I ought to be, but have always
failed. Now I give it up to you. Do take entire possession of me. Work in me all the good pleasure of your
will. Mold and fashion me into such a
vessel as seems good to you. I leave
myself in your hands. Amen. (The
Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith)
Scripture for the Day: Job 42:1-6
Reading for Reflection:
Spiritual poverty is the door to freedom,
not because we remain imprisoned in the anxiety and constraint which poverty of
itself implies, but because, finding nothing in ourselves that is a source of
hope, we know that there is nothing in ourselves worth defending. There is nothing special in ourselves to
love. We go out of ourselves therefore
and rest in Him in Whom alone is our hope. (Thoughts in Solitude
by Thomas Merton)
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, restore to me the joy of your
salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to
you. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O
God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your
righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and
my mouth will declare your praise. For
you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased
with a burnt offering. The sacrifices
you desire are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will
not despise. Have mercy on me. Amen.
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