Dear Family of Love,
Happy You Matter Monday and Monday in Holy Week. Our Holy Week Pilgrimage Continues as we continue to place one foot in front in front of the other as we approach the Upper Room, The Garden, The Pavement, Golgotha, The Cross, The Tomb, and beyond We are in the early stages of this yearly Holy Pilgrimage and we are in the place where we are being prepared for what is to come and that means we have to take time to spiritually, physically, and emotionally get ready. Tonight we are preparing ourselves physically and that means we need to treat our feet with kindness, make sure we are well hydrated, and our bodies well nourished, and as our mothers and their mothers before them kept telling them and us "Don't forget your jacket!" Speaking of our physical selves, this is my final reminder for all of us during the final days of Colon Cancer awareness month! Get your screening colonoscopy if you are age 50+ and maybe earlier if you have genetic risk factors for Ovarian and Breast Cancer. End of PSA! Speaking of PSA, dear brothers get your PSA levels screened so that you may live a long life and the women and men in your lives won't have to nag you.
What is today's prayer focus ? If you haven't guessed it already we are going to pray for our physical selves and our relationships to and with God.
Dear God we pray this night for the health of our bodies, minds, and spirits.
Make us strong and healthy to serve with you and for you in your kingdom daily.
God we pray for the health of all children that they may receive medical care, proper nourishment, and the necessities of life in order to thrive.
Make them strong and healthy so they may be ready to be our present and our future leaders and be able to care for us and the earth.
God we pray for the health of all elderly family members that they may age healthily in body and in mind.
God make them strong and healthy so that they may be able to live their days in peace and without pain.
God we pray for the health of all women who are being denied adequate health care.
God make all women strong and healthy and courageous to fight for adequate health care,not just for themselves but for all women.
God we pray for the health of all men who sometimes find it hard to go to the doctor and be honest about what is troubling them.
God make all men strong and healthy to be courageous and get help for all their medical and physical needs.
God we pray for the health of all disabled family members that they may receive adequate benefits so that they may remain healthy get the care they need.
God make them strong and healthy to live with their disabilities.
God we pray for the health of our world and especially in areas that have been stricken by disease and famine.
God make these areas strong and healthy again so that our family members may thrive and live in safe living conditions.
God we pray for the health of our nation where their is great poverty of body, mind, and spirit.
God make our nation strong and healthy to promote justice, vanquish poverty, and strive to end all areas of inequality.
God we pray for the health of ourselves and our family members.
God make us strong and healthy and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits and that we may honor what our bodies and You O, God are telling them today.
God we pray this night in the name of Jesus the Great Physician and Healer of us all! Amen.
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Good Night Dear Family of Love! I love you and Give thanks to God for you this night and always! Tomorrow is Take Care Tuesday! Time to take care of ourselves and others.
Here is the prayer (Collect) for Monday in Holy Week from the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER:
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
With love and prayers and in thanksgiving for your presence on our journey,
Sara
I Sing The Body Electric- Fame
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