A check in and a few prayers!

Good Late Evening and Early Morning Dear Ones!

Happy Saturday and Sunday wherever you are! I have returned from seeing Sense and Sensibility at the P.C.P.A.  It was a wonderful performance. I will share later! It is time to pray and set our faces and bodies toward rest and preparing for the day ahead.  We will return to vigil time and remembering those who have died by violence later today.

Let us begin our time of meditation and preparation by dong our own breathing and relaxation exercises.  Here are a few pieces that will help. 

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and  Ralph Vaughan Williams-Fantasia on Greensleeves  

Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know that I am.
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be.


Prayers for the 31st of July. 
We pray this night that as we lay down our burdens we will find peace in our bodies, minds, and spirits.

We pray this night for all of our family members who have trouble doing this.

We pray for all who are newly grieving and who are learning new and emotional normals that they do not understand.

We pray for all children who are beginning to face going back to school that we may be aware of any anxiety they may have.

We pray for all adults who are struggling to keep their sanity in daily living.

We pray for peace in the world and an end to violence and terror. We pray that we may step it  up and be peacemakers without fear.

We pray for all of our family members who have asked us for our prayers remembering________

We pray for any concern you have in your hearts this day.

We give thanks this day for __________________and the ministry of  St. Ignatius of  Loyola as we remember the prayer associated with his day:

 O God, by whose grace your servant Ignatius, enkindled with the fire of your love, became a burning and a shining light in your Church: Grant that we also may be aflame with the spirit of love and discipline, and may ever walk before you as children of light; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.


Or these Prayers from the 30th of July

First let us take time to breathe:

Breathe in Love
Exhale and feel empowered by the Holy Spirit!

Breathe in Love
Exhale and feel empowered by the Holy Spirit!

Breathe in Love
Exhale and feel empowered by the Holy Spirit!

Tonight's musical selection while we meditate comes from  a compilation of hymns: Hymns Through the Centuries 

God of Love and Goodness let us enter in prayer with open and loving hearts and hear your still small voice and do as you would have us do. 

God of Love and Goodness let us pray and ask for forgiveness of any wrong thoughts, speech, or actions we may have done to hurt, harm, debase, or exclude any of your Children  and our Family members. 

God of Love and Goodness take away the pain that all our family members are are enduring by acts of hatred, violence, and words that are harsh and unloving.

God of Love and Goodness take away the pain that our family members are struggling with when they encounter injustice, inequality, and human rights violations.

God of Love and Goodness, take away the pain that our family members find themselves in as refugees, political prisoners, victims of violence, terror, abuse, and human trafficking, persecution of any kind, and release them from pain and suffering.

God of Love and Goodness help us to not hate but love, not to ignore but see you in our family members' faces. 

God of Love and Goodness give us courage to make peace and be peace makers. May peace prevail upon Earth.

God of Love and Goodness protect the least of these and the most vulnerable remembering especially women, children, the elderly, and the mentally ill.

God of Love and Goodness help us to reach out to all of our estranged family members through out the world. May we seek to be united in hearts that are loving and souls that are bright with God's light.

God of  Love and Goodness help us to become healers of your creation and learn to have reverence for its resources.

God of Love and Goodness we pray and remember those who have come to us asking for prayers and even those who have unspoken prayers that need to be offered. We remember especially___________ We also add our thanksgivings  remembering______________


God of Love and Goodness we pray and remember all of us who are continuing on grief's long journey. May we have times of lessened grief and when grief comes roaring back afresh we may seek your comfort and our family members.

God of Love and Goodness we pray and remember this day the work of William Wilberforce with the following prayer:

 Let your continual mercy, O Lord, kindle in your Church the never-failing gift of love, that we, following the examples of your servants William Wilberforce and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, may have grace to defend the poor and maintain the cause of those who have no helper; for the sake of him who gave his life for us, your Son our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
  
 Accept these our prayers in the name of  Jesus our Redeemer, Friend, and the one who teaches us daily to love and not to hate and that yes, all means all and not some. Amen.

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Good Night Dear and Precious Ones! I love you and Give God thanks for you this night and always!  ! Love is the key to banish and vanquish hate and division. Remember this always!

Love,

Sara