Sunday- Ps.133 is a short prayer. In our time of strife, it is a good prayer. It has the sense of abundance and a hint of Ps. 23 or Ecclesiastes wanting oil to never be lacking on one’s head. What precious thing would you like presented to you in abundance with regularity?
Monday- O holy and life-giving Spirit, enable us by thy grace to root out from our common life the bitterness of ancient wrongs and the thirst to avenge the betrayals of long ago. Save us from the tyranny of history and set us free in a new obedience to serve each other in the present hour. Accepting the redemption wrought for us, we believe that all our sins of yesterday are covered by thy mercy; Grant us therefore grace and courage to give and to receive the forgiveness which alone can heal today's wounds. Draw us, O Lord, towards loving kindness and guide us into the way of peace.
Tuesday-"Longing for peace, our world is troubled...longing for hope, many despair...Your word alone has power to save us,. Make us your loving voice...Christ, be our light! Shine in our hearts, shine through the darkness. Christ be our light! Shine in your church, gathered today." -- "Christ, Be Our Light" Bernadette Farrell,
Wednesday-While none of us can save the world, we can create sanctuaries in our lives, places where compassion is the automatic response rather than fear, where we turn to hope and trust before anxiety, love rather than judgment. From Abbey of the Arts
Thursday- Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.F. Buechner
Friday"We find a path that is more about following one’s own ripening and unfolding rather than looking for the straight path and plan.from Abey of the arts
Saturday-And I can't believe that, when we have all been changed and put on incorruptibility, we will forget our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence, the great bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the whole world to us. In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets. Because I don't imagine any reality putting this one in the shade entirely, and I think piety forbids me to try.”Marilynne robinson from gilead
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