Dear Family of Love!
Happy first Sabbath Rest Day of 2016. This is the time of year when I encourage everyone to be on their best behavior while engaging in social media and even in our own lives. Sniping, trolling, bullying, hating, and being just plain mean is just plain wrong. We must all promise each other with the words of the pledge I re-introduced a few weeks ago:
Dear Family of love,
I promise to myself and you my family members in 2016 to do these things for the benefit of all.
Love God,My Neighbor who is also my family member who may be nearby, far away and yes even my enemy, and myself with out fear but with love.
Stop being a negative presence in social media or elsewhere. I promise not to hate, bully, troll, snipe, or be mean in any way.
I promise to practice good manners in social media and elsewhere.
Forgive and let go so that I may experience the healing of my heart home.
Love my enemies and those who have wished and caused me harm so that I may be at peace.
Practice random acts of kindness without accepting anything in return.
To be more giving, more of a listener, more patient when needed, more, more, more.
Be a peacemaker who carries the light of Christ in to God's Fragile and Broken World.
Be a conservationist for the good of God's Cathedral of life.
Care for all our family members with love, empathy, and compassion.
Continue to work towards the unity and peace of all our brothers and sisters.
Additional promises may be made as we go through the year.
This is my promise made with love, joy, hope, and peace this day January 3, 2016
Signed
Sara
We must start practicing every day the CALM principle; Be Compassionate, Accepting, Loving, and Merciful..
Tonight's virtual candlelight vigil is this :
Let us light our candles and be at prayer. This night let us pray that we may love and be kind to one another.
Let us now pray to God who is Love.
God of Love we pray that in this year to come we may practice random acts of kindness and love radically and more fully than we ever have before.
God of Love we pray that we may not hate, troll, bully, snipe, or be mean in social media and elsewhere.
God of Love we pray that we may practice being CALM (Compassionate, Accepting, Loving, and Merciful)
God of Love help us to use right behavior and manners with one another keeping kindness and love uppermost in our minds.
God of Love we pray that we may love one another not half-heartedly but fully and with out fear.
God of Love we pray for the healing of divisions throughout our land in war-torn nations. May love and peace prevail in this your fragile and broken world.
God of Love we pray for the healing of those who are ill in body, mind, and spirit. We remember ______________________ and all of our family members and those who have asked us to pray for.
God of Love we pray for all those who are homeless, hungry, and have nowhere to lay their heads in this cold weather. May they have courage to seek shelter and the many warming centers that are available. Protect them and keep them safe from harm.
God of Love we pray for all pets and all animals who aren't being protected from the cold weather. May the owners of their pets show loving concern for their fluffy family members.
God of Love we pray for justice, universal human rights and the courage to lovingly respond to those who are voiceless and need us to speak truth to power.
God of Love be with our family members who grieve losses that are new and those that are ongoing.
Give us compassionate hearts to love them through dark times and show them the light of your love.
God of Love we pray for all of our family members who live in the Thin Places where eternal joy and light are to be found.
God of Love we pray for all our family members who have children returning to school this week and those who have a little while longer to wait.
God of Love we pray for the protection of our most vulnerable family members remembering children, elderly, differently-abled, those with memory disorders.
God of Love we pray for all our family members who are awaiting surgery and who are hospitalized.
God of Love we give thanks for______________________
God of Love we celebrate____________________________
God of Love we remember___________________________
We lay these our prayers at the feet of Jesus who is Love incarnate and in His Most Holy Name. Amen.
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A Prayer attributed to St. Francis
Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is
hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where
there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where
there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where
there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to
be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is
in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we
are born to eternal life. Amen.
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I wish you all a blessed and peaceful night dear ones. I love you all and give thanks to God for you each and every day.
With love, hope, peace, joy, kindness, Love Energy abounding from my heart home to yours,
Sara
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