Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: O Lord our God, help us to live our lives with
the faith and courage necessary to live by love and not by fear. Forgive me when my seeing and my thinking get
so distorted that I allow fear to control me and make me its slave—even when I
don’t fully realize it. Seize my heart
and soul with your perfect love in such a way that it drives out all fear and
gives me the freedom to truly love, rather than manipulate, those in my life
and world. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Scripture Reading for the Day: 2 Timothy 1:6-14
Reading for Reflection:
“The light’s going uncommon quick,” said
Rynelf.
“Back to the ship,” muttered the men.
“I really think,” said Edmund, “they’re
right. We can decide what to do with the
three sleepers tomorrow. We daren’t eat
the food and there’s no point in staying here for the night. The whole place smells of magic—and danger.”
“I am entirely of King Edmund’s opinion,”
said Reepicheep, “as far as concerns the ship’s company in general. But I myself will sit at this table till
sunrise.”
“Why on earth?” said Eustace.
“Because,” said the Mouse, “this is a very
great adventure, and no danger seems to me so great as that of knowing when I
get back to Narnia that I left a mystery behind me through fear.” (The
Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: Lord God, our Heavenly Father, thank you
that you did not give us a spirit of fear, but a Spirit of power, love and
self-control. Help me to see the places
in my life that I am allowing fear to rule me and keep me from being all that
you long for me to be and from doing all that you desire for me to do. Give me the courage to follow you fully and
completely every day. Amen.
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