Dear Family of Love and Dear Ones of Mine!
Wow it is wonderful to be back blogging tonight! Many of you have heard the news today, but many of you haven't. I had my first year follow up post colon cancer colonoscopy and I bring you tidings of great Joy! I am officially one year cancer free. I feel wonderful about this. I give thanks to God for my Daughter of The King Sister Anita Rockstroh for taking me and picking me up. I'm amazed how good I feel after this procedure than my first one! So today I ask each of you to make a promise to each other and yourselves never to take life for granted. and count each and every blessing you have. Some blessings may seem packaged in grey tissue paper, but once you open them they are blessings in disguise. Today we open those first because they come as a surprise and we just never know what God has planned for us with these. Then we open all the other packages of blessings that we have been given and give thanks to God for them. So today we will pray prayers of thanksgiving and celebrate each moment we live, move, and just be as a chance for new life.
But first let's do the heart labyrinth virtual prayer walk with our mouse and listen to some beautiful music to center us.
God of goodness and love, as we sit at your feet this night we take time to give thanks in the peace and quietness of our hearts.
God of goodness and love, we give thanks for the lives you have given us and yes even the moments where there are times of darkness that helps prepare us to walk in your light.
God of goodness and love, we give thanks for our family members nearby and far away. We thank you even for our enemies and those who wish us harm as lessons that love and peace must be shown, given, and practiced.
God of goodness and love, we give thanks for times where our health challenges us to enter into new paths of life and wholeness.
God of goodness and love, we give thanks for your son Jesus who modeled for us thanksgiving in the Eucharist.
God of goodness and love, we give thanks for all our blessings this day and help us to count them now in the silence of our hearts or aloud if we need to hear them___________________
God of goodness and love, we pray in thanksgiving for all those who come to us for prayer, help, and a soft place in which to fall.
God of goodness and love, we pray this night for the people of Nepal and Baltimore and all the many places where there is violence, natural disaster, and terror.
God of goodness and love, we give thanks for the least of these who remind us what being a member of your family is all about.
God of goodness and love, we give thanks for the elderly, children, and most vulnerable family members who remind us to be caregivers and protectors.
God of goodness and love, we give thanks for all our family members who are transitioning into and who have died and entered the Thin Places with Joy.
God of goodness and love, we give thanks this night for ________________________________
God of goodness and love, we give thanks for positive and life giving news.
God of goodness and love we lift up these our prayers and thanksgivings in the name of your son Jesus Christ the Great Physician and Shepherd of us all! Amen.
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Good Night Dear Ones! I love you and give thanks to God for you, your prayers, and your love this night and always. Tomorrow we begin our Sabbath and Self-Care Preparations by Keeping the Faith Friday Fearlessly Without Fretting!
With love to the brim and over flowing!
Sara
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