Sunday-Ps. 1 probably is meant to introduce all 150 psalms., a sort of preface or introduction to the entire bloc of material. If so, what stands out to you as important features of this first prayer? Are you someone who skips the preface or introduction of a book or even the social niceties of being introduced to someone?
Monday-When we abide in love we can experience a sense of union with all there is. It is the source of spirituality, especially the mystical paths found in all religious traditions, a sense of the ultimate oneness of everything that is and seeking to experience that unity in daily life. Love calls us into connection with the world. In times when feeling disconnection and isolation is easier than ever, love calls us to step into the flesh and blood relationships, to engage, to risk, to be vulnerable.(Abbey of the arts)
Tuesday-”he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accommodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it; and besides I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty, and paralysis to human thought."Mark Twain
Wednesday-"The Frankfurt Prayer," which aptly describes the contemplative yearning, even for our time: Savior teach me the silence of humility, the silence of wisdom, the silence of love, the silence of perfection, the silence that speaks without words, the silence of faith. Lord, teach me to silence my own heart that I may listen to the gentle movement of the Holy Spirit within me and sense the depths which are of God. Amen
Thursday-Believing in anything beyond that which can be touched, smelled and tasted, from this perspective, "is to take too great a chance," writes LuibhÊid."But," he continues, "the willingness to take just such a chance is surely the mark of the Christian. A creature of the day and of circumstance, the Christian nevertheless claims, at times weakly, at times with powerful courage, that God does indeed exist, that there is somewhere an enduring and timeless domain where the burdened heart may aspire to find ease. The Christian has in him the capacity to hope for better things."M Jinkins, Louisville
Friday-“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men (and women); and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
- Herman Melville
Saturday- I’ve been thinking about how little I ever consider the Ascension. Take a look at the stained glass window in the sanctuary and reflect upon it. the theologian Pannenberg wrote that the Ascension was the impetus for the Great Commission. How od you imagine it and what is its impact?
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