Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: I am sure that there is in me nothing that
could attract the love of One as holy and as just as You are. Yet You have declared Your unchanging love
for me in Christ Jesus. If nothing in me
can win your love, nothing in the universe can prevent You from loving me. Your love is uncaused and undeserved. You are Yourself the reason for the love
wherewith I am loved. (Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer)
Scripture Reading for the Day: John 1:14-18
Reading for Reflection:
Grace is the good pleasure
of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in
the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the
wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who
were before under just disapprobation [unacceptable to a just God]. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and
make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the
exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus. (Knowledge of
the Holy by A.W. Tozer)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: Father, I love You Whom I do not know, and I embrace You Whom I do not see, and I abandon myself to You Whom I have offended, because You love in me Your only begotten Son. You see Him in me, You embrace Him in me, because He has willed to identify Himself completely with me by that love which brought Him to death, for me, on the Cross. (Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton)
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