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Opening Prayer: If you like to use music in prayer, I might suggest this song as a beautiful meditation on inviting God to work through our efforts: He Is Among Us, by the Porter’s Gate. *Based on Matthew 25: 31-46 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me […]
Read MoreOpening Prayer If you like to use music in prayer, I might suggest this virtual performance of We Are Called, by the St. Paul Young Adult Choir: https://youtu.be/TsQ_kANdM6U Loving God, Three in One, You created persons for one another; a reflection of Trinitarian relationship. So hungry for relationship are we, that ‘Our hearts are restless until we […]
Read MoreOpening Prayer For those wishing to begin with an opening song, I’d recommend this one. A good Scripture passage would be 1 Corinthians 6: 19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been […]
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As I sit down to write, my husband is refereeing the battle going on upstairs between sisters—it seems an appropriate time to reflect gratefully on the next week we’ll have together with no school. I don’t have a sister, so this is my first formal taste of the squabbling, and whew! It is fierce and […]
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Metaphorically speaking, I’d like to classify myself as the cannon-ball type–The one who sprints to the edge of the dock, tucks, and hits in the water without hesitation (and on a hot summer day, I am). The truth is I wear three layers every day for about six months of the year. I am rarely […]
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This morning, my daughter’s class was talking about the people in our community. They brainstormed a list of people they know in their communities, and the jobs they each perform. Firefighters and police officers topped the list. Beyond some of these more prominent, public figures, there was a lot of brainstorming. While some listed the professions […]
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A prayer of hope Gracious God, make me a seeker of far-off things,long-awaited things. Find me steadfastly following,even in the darkness clinging to wild hope for an encounter with you–unbelievable and brief as it might be. Should I receive such grace, I pray that you find me with heart out-poured,strengthened to continue on carrying in a new way […]
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A prayer in Advent Christ of my heart, I can feel your nearness. I want so badly to touch you and feel you with me. I hear stories of violence, war and voices calling out to the love they know is You and I imagine your heart pulled toward these calls–reaching out to touch them, […]
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