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)
Scripture Reading for the Day: Hebrews 4:12-13
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)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: Your hands, O Lord, have made and fashioned
me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments. Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,
because I have hoped in your word. I
know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have
afflicted me. Let your steadfast love
comfort me according to your promise to your servant. Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;
for your law is my delight. Amen. (Psalm
119:73-77)
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