Catch me in my anxious quarantine, Lord, and hold me in this Lenten season: hold my feet to the fire of your grace and make me attentive to my mortality that I may begin to die now to those things that keep me from living with you and with my neighbors on this earth; to grudges and indifference, to certainties that smother…
Lenten Devotion – Week Four Opening Thoughts The dictionary describes “interruption” as a stoppage or hindering of an activity for a time, or a break in the continuity of something. Interruptions have been happening since the world began, but certainly now more than ever we recognize that everyone on earth is being interrupted… and currently for the same reason. Therefore, the question…
Opening Prayer ~ Gather Me to Be with You by Ted Loder O God, gather me now to be with you as you are with me. Soothe my tiredness… quiet my fretfulness… curb my aimlessness… relieve my compulsiveness… let me be easy for a moment. O Lord, release me from the fears and guilts which grip me so tightly; from the expectations…
Lenten Devotion – Week Two Opening Prayer ~ I Need to Breathe Deeply by Ted Loder Eternal Friend, Grant me an ease to breathe deeply of this moment, to follow this light you offer, to know this miracle of now. Beneath the din and fury of great movements and harsh news and urgent crises, make me attentive still to good news, to…
Last week marked the opening of Lent. For six and a half weeks, we will join Christians around the world in self-reflection, new disciplines and spiritual awareness. What will that look like for you? What is your hope regarding your relationship with Jesus and your own wellbeing by the time we celebrate Easter? No matter what sacred pathway you are on, strive…
Evening Prayer Sometimes It Just Seems to Be Too Much by Ted Loder Sometimes Lord, it just seems to be too much: to much violence, too much fear; too much of demands and problems; too much of broken dreams and broken lives; too much of war and slums and dying; too much of greed and squishy fatness and the sounds…
Evening Prayer and Scripture: O gracious light, pure brightness of the ever-living Father in heaven, Jesus Christ, holy and blessed! Now as we come to the setting of the sun, and our eyes behold the vesper light, we seek you , O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Lord, let us feel your presence as we intently seek you. Restore…
Monday 6pm Prayer and Scripture Prayer: Jesus stand beside me. Guide and direct my life. Teach me what I need to know. Help me with my work. Let me serve you and others, That I may be worthy of God’s grace. Scripture: “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over…
Evening Prayer Serenity Prayer GOD, Grant me the serenity to Accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And the Wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,…
Evening Prayer Leader: Gracious God, in Jesus Christ you broke the barrier of sin and pain which separates us from our neighbor, ourselves, and you. We seek your grace so we might move from alienation to new life. People: So God, grant us new life in you. Leader: When we deny your presence in our busy days— People: O God, grant us…