Good Evening Family of Love,
Today was a quiet and restful day for me. I give God thanks for these times of quiet and rest especially after all of my travels not travails. I have been thinking a lot about children and our most vulnerable family members. This time of year can be a challenge for them. How can we be loving and compassionate towards them? How can we bring them hope in the midst of times of darkness? How do we respond when we are face to face with them? Maybe it gets back to our thinking of We not Me. The answers apply equally to us too. Maybe if we answer the above questions not to "the other " but to us.
How can we be loving and compassionate towards them/us?
By taking time to listen lovingly and by showing affection and care. We need to be a soft and safe place where we can vent and fall. We need to give our shoulders to cry on and our arms to give a loving embrace and wrap our arms around each other either in person or by a cyber- hug. The list and actions are endless.TAKE TIME TO LOVINGLY RESPOND, CARE, AND TELL US THAT WE MATTER!
How can we bring them/us hope in the midst of times of darkness?
By taking time to be present, be praying, be the Christ light for us. We never should leave our family members when we are struggling, in pain, poor health, and anything else that is causing us/them difficulty. We need to give each other the gift of presence and not shy away.LOVINGLY RESPOND AND LET US KNOW THAT WE MATTER!
How do we respond when we are face to face with them/us?
By smiling, not treating them/us as invisible, with a warm greeting, and loving conversation. We again give them/us the gift of presence. We all must lovingly respond in person and in cyberspace!
If we see each other having a bad day LOVINGLY RESPOND! If we have found ourselves in a bad situation,LOVINGLY RESPOND! Not responding sends bad messages to us, no matter who we are. EVERYONE MATTERS!
Tonight let us take time to begin or continue to make our list of our loved ones that have fallen through the cracks and with whom we have lost our connection. Think of how we all need to lovingly reach out and care when reconnect with them/us. Here is our meditation music:Thanksgiving Music since today is Being Thoughtful and Thankful Thursday!
God of all goodness, come into our heart this night and stay with us when the night is dark and the day is ending.
Let us shine your vesper light to each other and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness, help us to Lovingly Respond to the needs all of us your Children who are the least of these.
Let us shine your vesper light to each other and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness, may give the gift or presence to all who are mourning any loss.
Let us shine your vesper light to each other and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness, we pray that we may lovingly care for your Cathedral of Life and each other.
Let us shine your vesper light to each other and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness, we pray that we may lovingly care for your Cathedral of Life and each other.
Let us shine your vesper light to each other and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness, we pray for all who are dying and have died today may they enter or have entered the Thin Places with joy and peace.
Let us shine your vesper light to each other while we are living and when are in the Thin Places and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness, take away all fears, hate, and dis-ease that keeps us from being united as your family of love.
Let us shine your vesper light to each other and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness, give us courage to speak truth to power and the strength to fight injustice anywhere and be a voice for the voiceless.
Let us shine your vesper light to each other and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness, give us courage to speak truth to power and the strength to fight injustice anywhere and be a voice for the voiceless.
Let us shine your vesper light to each other and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness, we offer our additional prayers remembering especially_______________
Let us shine your vesper light to each other and reflect your loving image to one another.
God of all goodness we lift up our prayers in the name of your only son Jesus the Christ, our redeemer, brother, and friend. Amen.
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Good night dear family of love! I love you and give thanks to God for you this day and always. Remember tomorrow is Keep the Faith Friday fearlessly without fretting! Have no fear God is near! May we/ I lovingly respond to each other with love in our times of need.
Love, prayers, peace and blessings be always yours,
Sara
O love, how deep, how broad, how high,
it fills the heart with ecstasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals' sake!
He sent no angel to our race
of higher or of lower place,
but wore the robe of human frame
himself, and to this lost world came.
For us baptized, for us he bore
his holy fast and hungered sore,
for us temptation sharp he knew;
for us the tempter overthrew.
For us he prayed; for us he taught;
for us his daily works he wrought;
by words and signs and actions thus
still seeking not himself, but us.
For us to wicked men betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death,
for us at length gave up his breath.
For us he rose from death again;
for us he went on high to reign;
for us he sent his Spirit here,
to guide, to strengthen and to cheer.
it fills the heart with ecstasy,
that God, the Son of God, should take
our mortal form for mortals' sake!
He sent no angel to our race
of higher or of lower place,
but wore the robe of human frame
himself, and to this lost world came.
For us baptized, for us he bore
his holy fast and hungered sore,
for us temptation sharp he knew;
for us the tempter overthrew.
For us he prayed; for us he taught;
for us his daily works he wrought;
by words and signs and actions thus
still seeking not himself, but us.
For us to wicked men betrayed,
scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
he bore the shameful cross and death,
for us at length gave up his breath.
For us he rose from death again;
for us he went on high to reign;
for us he sent his Spirit here,
to guide, to strengthen and to cheer.
salvation for us through his Son,
to God the Father, glory be
both now and through eternity.
Words: Latin, fifteenth century;
trans. Benjamin Webb, 1854
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