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Friday, October 24, 2014

trust, friday

Friday, October 24

Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God.
         
Opening Prayer:     O Christ Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness, give us the sense of your presence, your love, and your strength.  Help us to have perfect trust in your protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for, living close to you, we shall see your hand, your purpose, your will through all things.
                                                                                ~St. Ignatius

Scripture Reading for the Day: Philippians 4:4-9

Reading for Reflection:
 
And remember, there are two things which are more utterly incompatible than even oil and water, and these two are trust and worry…When a believer really trusts anything, he ceases to worry about that thing which he has trusted.  And when he worries, it is plain proof that he does not trust. (The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith)

Reflection and Listening: silent and written

Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
                                  
Closing Prayer: O God, our Heavenly Father, help us to not be consumed with the worries and anxieties of this life, but to give all of our cares to you in prayer.  Fix our hearts and our minds on your character and your excellence; that your peace may guard our hearts and our minds in Christ Jesus.  It is in his name that we lift up our prayers.  Amen.    

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