Dear Family of Love!
Happy You Matter Monday! You Matter to God, You Matter to Me ! You matter to us! You Matter to yourselves.
Whoa! I mean whoa! Tomorrow is September 1st, 2015! Can you believe it? I can't ! It means that we are beginning to feel the essence of Fall and see another change of season. This is always an interesting time of year for our bodies, minds, and spirits. We find ourselves because of the change of daylight a little bit on the blue side emotionally. Physically we find ourselves wanting to hunker down and eat, watch football, and become couch potatoes. Spiritually we may begin to get our seasonal panic disorder because we get to have a mix of holidays and hype being sprung on us from out of nowhere. Yes we also will find ourselves looking in the stores for a normal aisle that at least doesn't have Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas ! So what does that mean for us tonight? It means that we must do our due diligence and focus on life one day at a time and take time to breathe. I'm not going to get myself all hyped up just because Madison Avenue wants me too. So we must take time to be at home with ourselves and God. God and the Good News is where it is at. Love and the Good News is where we must center ourselves. Being the bearer of love and the Good News and the truly wonderful message that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are giving us daily is what we are called to do. We must daily take time to breathe, meet with God, meet with each other, and meet ourselves with love and acceptance. So dear ones let us find ourselves meeting God at the center and stop the fall fury before it starts.
Remember this? Let's take time to do this tonight!
Practice our Mindfulness exercises and breathing:
It is simply this: We start with our breathing exercises using this format:
Inhale the Holy Spirit.
Exhale Love.
Inhale the Holy Spirit
Exhale Love
Inhale the Holy Spirit
Exhale Love
Now repeat the following 3 times;
Be Still and Know That I am God.
Be Still and Know
Be Still
Be
Here is tonight's musical selection: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Trio Sonatas
Now get out some kind of timer, mindfulness app, or music and set them for 5 minutes when you begin. Then close your eyes and be silent. If the music goes long don't worry that will lead you into our time of prayer and thanksgiving.
More Holy Spirit Cycle of Prayers from Last year!
Holy Spirit, may we lovingly support our family members who labor for the common good.
Holy Spirit, channel our lives in the direction you would have us go.
Holy Spirit, enfold all of our family members who are dying and have died this day in your comforting arms.
Holy Spirit, bring comfort to all who mourn and are pre-grieving losses.
Holy Spirit, may we sew seeds of joy, hope, peace, and love to all of our family members and the least of these.
Guide us to the well of the Water of Life and may we never thirst and feel the Waters coursing through our veins.
Holy Spirit, heal our world, our wounds, our hearts, and all the illnesses and injustices in the world.
Holy Spirit, we lift up our prayers, celebrations, remembrances, and thanksgivings especially____________ and every unspoken prayer that hasn't been able to be said.
We pray these our prayers in Jesus our loving and merciful redeemer's name. Amen.
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Good Night Dear Ones! I love you! You matter! I wish I could take care of each and everyone of you. You are precious treasures to me! I give God thanks for you this day and always!
With Love and blessings,
Sara
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