Dear Family of Love!
Happy Keeping the Faith Friday Fearlessly Without Fretting! These days the world in which we live, move, and just be is full of fear and mistrusting our family members who differ from us. A wonderful friend of mine brought this video to my attention and this is where I'd like to start our time together this evening; Click on the link to get started: I Am Not Black, You are not White
What things are crossing your minds, hearts, and spirits?
Do you think that it is possible to live without descriptive labels?
Can we live together as Jesus would have us do?
Is it possible to strive to be the CALM brothers and sisters in the family of God?
Let us strive with heart homes filled with love energy!
Now let us meditate on this picture :
Our music to accompany this meditation is this:
Music of Peace - Richard Shulman
Dear Ones this is our time for our Virtual Candlelight Prayer Vigil and light our candles and pray that the world may be illumined with God's light of love and peace. We pray that we may see each other as the beautiful child God made in God's own image and likeness. We pray for and end to fear, violence, and hatred."Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with us"!
Let us be at prayer and pray to God to help us strengthen the holy connections God has given us.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections so that we may be united in the bonds of love and family-hood.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections that remind us that we are family to even the least of these and our enemies.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections that make us one with you so that we may serve you as in the paths you have set before us.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections that are needed at the time when our family members mourn losses of loved ones and friends.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections to reach out to all our family members who are ill and may we pray this night for all who are ill remembering especially_____________________________
God help us to strengthen the holy connections that unite us and not divide us.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections that call us to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with you so that we may become the voice of the voiceless. We pray for peace and an end to wars, violence, and terror. We pray for all refugees, captives,and victims of abuse and trafficking.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections to our loved ones who have died so that we may pray for those who are dying and transitioning into the Thin Places.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections that will help us to have a reverence for God's Cathedral of Life and all living things and beings.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections that we may bring ourselves and our gifts to the table daily and share them with all of our family members with love and for the common good.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections when we share our life's story with courage we may feel your loving arms around us as we speak our truth with love and mercy. May we not be afraid to come out of our closets what ever those closets may be and the secrets that need to be told. May with live our lives authentically with love, courage, and grace.
God help us to strengthen the holy connections as we pray for ourselves, on behalf of our family members, and those who have been afraid to come to us and ask us for prayer remembering_____________
God in the name of Jesus we lift up these our prayers who connects us to you and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Good Night Dear Family of Love, I love you and wish you all a blessed night! I'm glad that you are in my life and in my family. I give God thanks for you this night and always!
With love, gratitude, and blessings to the brim and overflowing!
Sara
P.S. don't forget to place your worries, anxieties, mads, and anything else that is troubling you into the Worry/Sabbath Box.
Take time for more preparation for our Self-Care and Sabbath Rest Weekend.
Here is a calming exercise of taking a Virtual Labyrinth Walk with your mouse to close tonight's meditation. If you don't have a mouse use a stylus, pencil, or your finger. Before you take the journey into the labyrinth do gentle breaths inwardly and outwardly and say this prayer:
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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