We are family!

Dear Family of Love and on Our Journey!

I'm in Ontario at the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles' annual Family Reunion or Diocesan Convention as it is better known. I have come yet again to the conclusion that we are family! I haven't been in many years and felt like I haven't been away. That's God at work. Tonight I would like to use the phrase for the response to our prayers: We are family, because that is what we are.

Lord God we thank you for all those who have crossed our paths today help us to see you in them.

We are Family!

Lord we pray for all those who are in need of your extravagant love, mercy, and grace. Give us courage to see those who are suffering not as outcasts but family members!

We are Family!

Lord we pray for all those who travel Help us to share the road safely and be awake to those are around us.

We Are Family.

Lord help us to rejoice when  our family members receive good news and to to be patient when you tell us not yet!

We are Family

Lord help us to plant healthy seeds on fertile ground and in tender hearts so that we may grow and sew love to feed and care for broken and hungry world.

We are family.

Lord help us to be the uniquely connected people of faith and your creation you made  us to be!

We are family!.

Help us O Lord to continue to say yes to you when you ask us to "Walk with me on our Journey!'

We are family.

We are family made in love, knit together by love and grace, and may we show to each other and the world that We Are Family. Amen.

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More to come tomorrow and pix too!

I love you, you matter,and you are family!

Love and peace of mind!

Sara