Sunday July 7-Ps. 30 has so many memorable phrases, mourning into dancing,out of the depths, rejoicing comes in the morning, ,hid your face.” Although, i tend toward the sad in Scripture, I will note the changes toward the good in the prayer. it recounts a healing, a reversal in the body, but the stress is on the mental, emotional, and spiritual changes that it has brought.
Gratitude for a healing moment in life makes the healing more secure in awareness, no?
Monday-Family crisis can bring out the extremes. people who are not close get bonded more closely. Underlying or overt bitterness may come pouring out in the face of the death of someone they both love, perhaps the only thing they agree on. We do well to manage our own thoughts and feelings and not insist that others follow our path. Crisis does not always bring us together, but it can be the occasion for a explosion that rips a relationship apart.
Tuesday-I’ve been catching bits and pieces of the movie by the Dardennes, The Kid with a Bike.It has a hint of the Good Samaritan story. The boy has an absentee father for whom he constantly tries to contact. the last woman in the world whom you would expect takes him in and offers him not only food for his body but helps to nurture his heart as well.
Wednesday-Promises get honored or broken as a “pocketful of mumbles” as Paul Simon said.A vow is a speical religious promise. Have you made one and were you able to maintain it? What are some promises kept for you that are especially meaningful for you? What were some broken promises that weakened your trust in people’s resolve and showed the “spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” What promises have you kept and what broken promises by you still nag at you?
Thursday-Music touches us, sometimes deeply. Music soothes, at times.What are your favorite songs? Are they all happy or sad, or a mix? Why are they your favorites? Do you have any recent favorites. do you find yourself going back in time when you hear an old favorite song. Do you sometimes get transported to a spot when it was important to you in marking a time in your life? what are your favorite and least-favored hymns?
Friday- That, I suppose, is the final mystery as well as the final power of words: that not even across great distances of time and space do they ever lose their capacity for becoming incarnate. And when these words tell of virtue and nobility, when they move us closer to that truth and gentleness of spirit by which we become fully human, the reading of them is sacramental; and a library is as holy a place as any temple is holy because through the words which are treasured in it the Word itself becomes flesh again and again and dwells among us and within us, full of grace and truth. ~Frederick Buechner,Listening to Your Life
Saturday-Dan Fogelberg sang: “lessons learned are like bridges burned/you only need ot cross them but once.” I am not sure about that. It seems to me that we replay past mistakes for a good long while in some circumstances. Even when we know that we are getting nowhere, we keep repeating the same pattern.Where have you learned to break an unhelpful pattern? when do you regret or treasure a burned bridge? What were lessons learned for you in success and failure?
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