Good Evening Dear Family of Love,
It's Take Care Tuesday and that means we get to have our new weekly series Stories From the Window and this surrounds the theme of Water. Tonight we pray for the need for holy hydration from the springs of Living Water.
Let's begin with today's Stories from the Window Part III:
Stories from the Window!
Today it was another hot day down at the Faith Factory. I decided to go in an hour early to work on #StPetersKeys because we need it our reader's e-mail boxes by the 1st. I also love the cool temperature down at the church as it has become my favorite sanctuary. I have been dealing with pain and discomfort issues for days and my hands are not feeling very good. Today we gave out 46 lunches with an additional 46 bottles of water to keep our family members hydrated. Today my heart was touched beyond belief because our family members just kept coming and coming. Some of them hadn't eaten all day due to having been afflicted by heat exhaustion and couldn't make it to the Salvation Army for the Noon Meal. Joseph one of our family members was clearly upset when he told me about a friend of his who died today. It's those moments when you realize the connections they have are as precious as the ones we have and even more. But the main theme today was Water. Water is what helps us live both physically and spiritually. Water is what gives our skin life and the feeling of cool and comfort. Water is what keeps us clean, our clothes clean, etc. Water is also what Jesus is to us. The Living Water that courses through our veins and guides us though the living Word and World. Today I remembered the old commercial for Olympia Brewing company " It's the water!" Well dear ones It's the Living Water that binds us together and if we don't have enough we become dried out and not able to function spiritually, physically, and soulfully and everything else.. So today in the words of Robin to Batman "Holy Hydration!" We need all the holy hydration we can get. We need to share it. While we still have hot days here is something you can do at home to take out to the homeless and have in your cars:
Hydration packs: 1: bag
1or 2; Bottles of water
1 or two Cutie tangerines
Sm pkg of Wash n Dries
If they aren't too expensive a bandanna and a wash cloth.
Remember to hydrate and help our family members to do it too!
Love and blessings!
Sara
Let us enter into the meditation on water and then we shall pray!
As a person who lives in California where there is severe drought we are realizing that water is our most precious resource. We need it to live, Plants and animals need it to grow and live, and we need it for our bodies, minds, and spirits too. God must have thought water was an important part in God's plan for Creation and that's why it was made on the Third Day before we arrived on the scene. So tonight let us think of the many ways in which we use water and also how we can become good at conserving water. After we meditate upon water that helps us live, let us turn to the Water of Life that is like an artesian well that will never run dry and when we drink from it we will never be thirsty.
Think of these images of ripples in the pond and in the water as we meditate.
Think of these images of ripples in the pond and in the water as we meditate.
How do these images speak to you?
Can you see the inter-connectedness of the ripples and waves?
What do these things remind you of?
Are we interconnected?
Now sit back and listen to this song by John Michael Talbot- Living Water and these pieces from John Rutter For The Beauty of the Earth and All Things Bright and Beautiful ,
To prepare for our prayers listen to this before we pray All Good Gifts -Godspell
Can you see the inter-connectedness of the ripples and waves?
What do these things remind you of?
Are we interconnected?
Now sit back and listen to this song by John Michael Talbot- Living Water and these pieces from John Rutter For The Beauty of the Earth and All Things Bright and Beautiful ,
To prepare for our prayers listen to this before we pray All Good Gifts -Godspell
Let us light our candles and pray as we carry the light into a thirsty world by bringing The Water and the Word to all of our family members who need it!
Let us pray and give thanks for God's gift of water and the Water of Life that Courses through our veins.
God we pray this night for refreshing rain that will take us out of the severe drought that our world is in.
God we pray that we may never take water for granted and that we may use this precious resource wisely.
God we pray for all who are thirsty, homeless, hungry, and ill-clad.
God we pray for all who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
God we pray for all who are thirsty and hungering to know you O God . We pray that they may find you a loving and merciful God.
God we pray for all who are ill and chronically ill that they may drink of the healing waters that you are providing for them,
God we give thanks for uniting all of your children who have been baptized with the Living Water of Life into your family.
God we pray that we may be good stewards and conservationists of the air, the waters, the soils, and all the natural resources you created so that we and your creation may live.
God we pray this night that our lives may be enlivened by your spirit and the Waters of Life that courses through our veins.
God we pray for all of our family members who do not have access to clean water.
God we pray for those who are grieving and shedding tears of mourning that they may receive from you and us loving comfort.
God we pray for all who are thirsting for knowledge where educational opportunities are few that they may find power just as Malala did within the pages of books and education.
God we pray for all those who have died this day that their bodies were gently cleansed and lovingly prepared for their final journey to your heavenly kingdom.
God we pray for __________________
God we celebrate and give thanks for__________________
We lift these our prayers and thanksgivings in the name of Jesus your Son the Water and Bread of Life. Amen.
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Our closing worship song is below.
Look At the World - John Rutter
God we pray for those who are grieving and shedding tears of mourning that they may receive from you and us loving comfort.
God we pray for all who are thirsting for knowledge where educational opportunities are few that they may find power just as Malala did within the pages of books and education.
God we pray for all those who have died this day that their bodies were gently cleansed and lovingly prepared for their final journey to your heavenly kingdom.
God we pray for __________________
God we celebrate and give thanks for__________________
We lift these our prayers and thanksgivings in the name of Jesus your Son the Water and Bread of Life. Amen.
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Our closing worship song is below.
Look At the World - John Rutter
If you should need a more spiritual time of worship watch this !
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Good Night Dear Family ! Don't forget to hydrate physically and spiritually!
I love you and may you have a restful and peaceful sleep.
With love to the brimful and overflowing as the Waters of Life do,
Sara
Good Night Dear Family ! Don't forget to hydrate physically and spiritually!
I love you and may you have a restful and peaceful sleep.
With love to the brimful and overflowing as the Waters of Life do,
Sara
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