Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: Loving Creator, I have no quarrel with the way
you have so carefully designed me in your image. Truly I am your work of art. Take me deeper today. Show me my virtues—the wonders of your design
for my life. Help me not to be afraid to
look into the depths of myself and believe in what I see—for I am the work of
your hands. If I can believe in what I
see, then I can rejoice in what I see.
Precious in your sight, I am your work of art. Continue to create me in
your image. Amen. (Behold Your
Life by Macrina Wiederkehr)
Scripture Reading for the Day: Colossians 3:1-12
Reading for Reflection:
Our very existence is one
of the never-to-be-repeated ways God has chosen to express himself in space and
time. Because we are made in God’s image
and likeness, you and I are yet another promise that he has made to the
universe that He will continue to love it and care for it.
Yet even if we grasp the fact that we are
a word uttered by God, we may not grasp what he is trying to say through
us. In Seeds of Contemplation
Merton writes, “God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of
himself. A word will never be able to
comprehend the voice that utters it. But
if I am true to the concept God utters in me, if I am true to the thought in
him I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him
everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere.
I shall be lost in him.” (Ruthless Trust by Brennan
Manning)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: Almighty and eternal God, you have revealed
yourself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and live and reign in the perfect
unity of love: hold us firm in this faith, that we may know you in all your ways and evermore rejoice in your eternal
glory, who are three Persons in one God, now and for ever. Amen.
(Oremus)
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