Dear Family of Love!
Happy First Being Thoughtful and Thankful Thursday during this season of Lent! You thought we'd do away with our daily making every day holy scheme during Lent didn't you ? No such luck because these are two of the prongs that help us to dial in with God, each other, and ourselves. Lent is a good time to make these attitudes of gratitude count. God is the giver of everything we have and sometimes we forget these things but we really mustn't. This is a time where refocusing on what's really important is necessary. We do this in Advent and we really must add it to our Lenten discipline. By tonight you should have decided what you are going to take on or lay down or take on and lay down. If not keep prayerfully meditating upon these two. Lent is a time for us to tune our listening ears to God. We may not instantly hear God but that only means we need a little more time for us to settle down and be quiet. That is tonight's work. More silent time and placing in our Journaling our Journey Journal our thanksgivings and what and whom we are grateful for. If you choose not to journal place these items on sticky notes and place them in your Gratitude Box or on an old lamp that doesn't work and place the sticky notes on the shade and make a prayer wheel. Use colorful sticky notes.
Remember this week's theme: This week's theme: Taking on and laying down
Today's Keywords and concepts: Being Thoughtful and Thankful.
Let us begin with our "Be Stills"
Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be.
Slowly inhale.
Hold.
Slowly exhale
Pause. Count to 10.
Repeat 4 times!
Now sit quietly and reflect up the day past and enjoy your visit with God. Open wide your heart homes and feel God filling you up with Love Energy.
What have you to be thankful and grateful for?
Tomorrow's Homework :
It is decision time! What are you taking on and laying down.
Keywords and Concepts: Heart Home
Dear Family of Love and God , It is time for our nightly Virtual Candlelight Prayer Vigil. Let us light our candles and be at prayer. Tonight we pray for all who are recovering and healing from surgery. We pray for their caregivers and medical teams. We pray this night for hospice, palliative care ministers, and those who serve in the mortuary ministries who care for loved ones who have died. We pray this night for all widows, widows, divorced, and single persons who face Valentine's day alone. We pray for peace in the world and we pray that we may be thoughtful and thankful for God and his loving care to us all. We pray that we may bring God's Compassion, Acceptance, Love and Mercy to this fragile and broken world. We pray that we may fervently strive for justice, peace, and universal human rights and respect the dignity of every human being.
Prayers for Thoughtful and Thankful Thursday
Blessed Lord make each day we live one of thoughtfulness and thanksgiving
Let us never forget that You made us and never to take that for granted.
Blessed Lord unburden our minds so that we may enjoy the joy and light you bring into our lives.
Help us to let go and let you be our guardian and guide.
Blessed Lord may we all ways be mindful of the homeless, the hungry, the lonely, the lost, the unemployed and all those who may be forgotten but known only to you.
Help us to remember they are our family members too and may we come to their aid.
Blessed Lord we pray for all those discerning vocations and calls to the ordained ministry and new life paths.
Blessed Lord we pray for all those who minister in all your congregations and religious communities in what ever faith is practiced.
Blessed Lord be with those who travel in bad weather. We pray for an end to all the bad weather back East and for rain to heal the drought parched lands of the West.
Blessed Lord take all our fears and turn them into faithfulness rooted in you and your love for us.
Help us to have faith when we are unsure and unsteady on our feet.
Blessed Lord help us to heal your broken world with our words, deeds, and by loving all of your creation with a spirit of grace, stewardship, and equity.
Blessed Lord help us to speak truth to power daily and lead others to see you in our family members where there is hate and indifference. Help us to ring the bells, and speak truth to power all in the Key of Jesus.
Watch over all the places in the world that are in trouble and war torn. Help us always to pray for peace and be peacemakers. Grant wisdom to our leaders that they may help aid those nations who are in trouble peaceful and non-warlike solutions for the good of all your people.
Blessed Lord be with all your children who feel alienated, discriminated against, hated, and bullied. Help us to say no to these actions and bring them into your circle of abiding love and light.
Blessed Lord we pray for those who have asked us to carry prayers for in our hearts while we walk with you, remembering especially ________________________
Blessed Lord. we give thanks for all our blessings especially___________________________
Blessed Lord we celebrate _______________________As we celebrate everyday our life with you O God.
Blessed Lord we remember our family members who now reside with you in those amazing Thin Places where there is no pain but eternal joy and light and we remember them now_______________
Blessed Lord wrap your arms around those who grieve losses of any kind. Help us to be responsive to our family members needs.
Gracious God we lay these our prayers, thanksgivings, celebrations, and remembrances in your arms and know that you are taking them and answering them according to your will and in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Let us listen to John Rutter : I will sing with the Spirit and take time once again to bring to mind all those things that we have to be thankful for and these prayers have brought to our minds and our hearts.
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Dear Family of Love ! I love you, you matter, and I Give thanks to God for you, and you are always in my heart and in my thoughts whether or not I walk. Take care and rest, relax, refresh, and renew your bodies, minds, and spirits this night and always.
Love and peace of mind,
Sara
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