Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: O God, our Heavenly Father, who created us
beautifully and wonderfully, may we always look to You for our value and worth,
remembering that we are a unique expression of your infinite love, care, and
creativity. Help us, O Lord, to see
ourselves as you see us in Christ—objects of your extravagant love and tender
affection. Amen.
Scripture Reading for the Day: Song of Songs 2:8-17
Reading for Reflection:
He is the one who can
tell us the reason for our existence, our place in the scheme of things, our real
identity. It is an identity we can’t
discover for ourselves, that others can’t discover in us—the mystery of who we
really are. How we have chased around
the world for answers to that riddle, looked in the eyes of others for some
hint, some clue, hunted in the multiple worlds of pleasure and experience and
self-fulfillment for some glimpse, some revelation, some wisdom, some authority
to tell us our right name and our true destination.
But there was, and is, only One who can
tell us this: the Lord himself. And he
wants to tell us, he has made us to know our reason for being and to be led by
it. But it is a secret he will entrust
to us only when we ask, and then in his own way and his own time. He will whisper it to us not in the mad rush
and fever of our striving and our fierce determination to become someone, but
rather when we are content to rest in him, to put ourselves into his keeping,
into his hands. Most delightfully of
all, it is a secret he will tell us slowly and sweetly, when we are willing to
spend time with him: time with him who is beyond all time. (Clinging
by Emilie Griffin)
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
help me
to believe
the truth about myself
no matter
how beautiful it is!
(Seasons of the Heart by Macrina Wiederkehr)
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