Walk With me on Our Journey: In the stillness we find and seek God

Dear Family of God (Love) and Pilgrims on our Journey,

I hope everyone had a good day by taking care of your selves and enjoying some quiet time with God or by just unplugging. As we move closer to Lent it might be helpful to begin by being quiet for a little while each day without any being plugged in. I'm noticing that I spend a lot more time being quiet on our prayer walk. It isn't easy, but necessary so that I can remain alert. When you do the quiet time on your walk or at home make it as gentle a time as possible. Right now I'm writing this and the house is still. All around I can hear the hum of appliances, and furnace and the sound of cars in the distance outside. What can you hear? This quiet time can be a time of holy listening. In the quiet God is wanting us to listen and not rush to respond. The deeper and longer you go the more quiet you'll need. We all need to rest, relax, refresh, and renew our bodies, minds, and spirits each day. No exception. It helps keep us focused and balanced. So if you haven't taken time to do this today. Do it now. You will love it! Remember it is in the stillness we find and seek God.

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Prayers in the stillness

*Those may be replaced with names, or by using Family Members.

Quiet our minds O God so that we can listen and hear your voice and what you are calling us to do and to be.
Help us to be still and listen to that quiet place in our heart and spirit. Help us to unwind our minds O God.

Quiet our bodies that we may turn our bodies from human doings to human beings.
Take the keys away that drive our bodies to do and not be.

Help us to feel our spirits and the indwelling of You and the Holy Spirit in this time of being quiet and still.
May our spirits be enlivened even in the quietness.

Lord we pray for all who are traveling may they take time to rest and be alert.

Lord help us to lay down our burdens each day at your feet so that we may find rest and spend time with You.

Give us the peace of mind that we are always seeking.

While we spend time with you Lord please take care of all of our loved ones and those whom we have been praying for. If we should fall asleep and rest be with them as we rest in the quietness.

In the stillness O Lord may we drink of the Living Water of Life and be refreshed and feel it coursing through our veins and give us the energy to do your will to your glory and in service to others.

In the stillness we remember and pray for all those who have requested our prayers for themselves and on behalf of others________________________________.

In the stillness we give thanks for the gifts of quiet, contemplation, rest, and times for our bodies, minds, and spirits to be renewed. We give thanks for__________________________

In the stillness we celebrate those times of joy and those who have made a difference in our lives remembering_____________________

In the stillness we remember those who have entered in to life eternal especially________________
And we remember those continue to grieve.

We pray for those awaiting surgery tomorrow. Calm their fears and anxieties Lord.

We pray for those who are being beset by bad weather O Lord. Ease these weather patterns Lord.

We pray for those who live in earthquake prone areas. Quiet their minds and give them the peace and knowledge that You O God are there.

Lord God watch over this your troubled and divided world. Set us on fire to help heal and unite it with our prayers, love, service, and actions. Give us grace, courage and love energy to do this in Your Name. Amen.

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From The Charter of Compassion on Facebook and Twitter:

"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are. “Interbeing” is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the prefix “inter-“ with the verb “to be,” we have a new verb, inter-be."
~ excerpt from Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
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That is all for this evening Dear Family of God (Love). I love you, please take care and enjoy the silence and stillness of life and being with God. Listen to God saying "Walk with me on our journey". Be still and Feel and know that you are loved beyond all measure.

Love and peace of mind and in the stillness of a quiet and grateful heart.

Sara