Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has
both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more.
I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I
long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. (The
Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer)
Scripture Reading for the Day: Psalm 36:5-10
Reading for Reflection:
In all of our hearts lies
a longing for a Sacred Romance. It will
not go away in spite of our efforts over the years to anesthetize or ignore its
song, or attach it to a single person or endeavor. It is a Romance couched in mystery and set
deeply within us. It cannot be
categorized into prepositional truths or fully known any more than studying the
anatomy of a corpse would help us know the person who once inhabited it.
Philosophers call this Romance, this heart
yearning set within us, the longing for transcendence; the desire to be part of
something larger than ourselves, to be part of something out of the ordinary
that is good. Transcendence is what we
experience in a small but powerful way when our city’s football team wins the
big game against tremendous odds. The
deepest part of our heart longs to be bound together in some heroic purpose
with others of like mind and spirit. (The Sacred Romance by Brent
Curtis and John Eldredge)
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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