Wake up ! We are called to care for the least of these!

Dear Family of Love,

I'm finally perking up and coming out of my day of rest and sleepiness! Not an easy thing to do. My feet are feeling better and now all I have to get rid of is a pesky headache due to the barometric pressure. I'm finding humor in this. As I said in one of my Facebook posts I felt like an invisible goon had secretly been slipping me Mickeys throughout the day. I am coming to grips that God is giving me rest time as a way to change things up a bit. What situations or things need to be changed up or changed in your life? This month's challenge  and into the next is to become more introspective and take a look at our lives and make needed changes. What is Summer for after all?  Tonight let's take out our timers or musical playlists for 15 and find peace at the center and reflect up on our day! Ludovico Einaudi -Divenire  and Ancora - Einaudi   are tonight's musical mediation music.

Tonight let us pray for the least of these and our family members who are feeling lost and alone.

Jesus, we come to you this night asking you to lift up the lonely, lost, and those who feel unloved and outcast. Help us to draw them into  your circle of love and fellowship where they will find peace and a loving family waiting for them.

Jesus, we pray for peace in the holy places where you walked, preached, healed, were there for those who  were outcast, blind, and not welcome in any town. We pray for peace in all of the Holy Land  and a return to holiness and we pray for the leaders of  Israel, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq that they may remember that they are all family members under Abraham and the awesome responsibility that comes with that.

Jesus, help us to be there for our family members even when it seems difficult to do so. 

Jesus, heal all  of our family members who are ill and we name them now before you with love________________

Jesus, help us to grow in the Fruits of the Spirit and reap abundantly the harvest that you have planted.

Jesus, help us to sew seeds of faith, hope, and love and that we may may show these throughout our lives and  in our daily living.

Jesus, help us to be good stewards of God's Cathedral of Life.

Jesus, we pray for all refugees, strangers, immigrants of any kind and especially the unaccompanied children who have been set on a dangerous road to freedom.

Jesus, help us to be lights to this broken world and to each other.

Jesus, be with those who mourn  and we pray that we may follow your example of compassion, love, and yes even weep as you wept at the tomb of Lazarus.

Jesus, may we rest gentle in your arms this night and always .

We lift up these our prayers to in Jesus' Name . Amen.

Jesus we remember this day Thomas A'Kempis:
Holy Father, you have nourished and strengthened your Church by the inspired writings of your servant Thomas a Kempis: Grant that we may learn from him to know what is necessary to be known, to love what is to be loved, to praise what highly pleases you, and always to seek to know and follow your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
From HOLY WOMEN, HOLY MEN 

Those of us who follow the Lectionary today got a jolt when we read today's reading from the Gospel of Luke and were reminded of this:

Luke 6:17-23

Jesus came down with his disciples and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.
Then he looked up at his disciples and said:
"Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
"Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled.
"Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
"Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.

Take time to care for the least of these. This isn't a suggestion, this is what we do as members of the Family of God. We are not let off the hook, this is everyone on the planet and we don't get to pick and choose!


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Good Night dear family. I love you! I give thanks to God for you each and everyday. May we all have a restful night. Before we slumber let us write down those worries, anxieties and place them in the Worry/Sabbath box and rest gentle in the Lord.


Love, joy, and peace,

Sara

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