Good Evening Dear Family!
Happy retreat weekend! Tonight it is time for reflection on what it means to be a child of God and one who is called daily to enter into a life long commitment as a practitioner of social justice. This is another one of those many things that God will not let us off the hook.
The questions for pondering tonight are these:
Do I walk the walk and talk the talks and do the things that God s calling me to do?
Who rubs me the wrong way and is there a way to heal these divisions?
Am I willing to stand up, sit down, die -in, picket, march, petition?
Do I have the guts to go to jail for my beliefs?
Those are today's questions for introspection!
Tonight let us make a private pledge between ourselves and God that we will honor each other as brothers and sisters and that we will do what ever we can to help each other in time of need and crises.
Our meditation time is this: Time for quiet introspection between you and God. Tonight we will not use music or breathing exercises. We will spend time at the feet of God and be mindful, listen, speak not as a gimme, gimme but what can I do for you and our family, and go deeper. Take whatever time you should need.
Let's light our candles and pray that we may become the radically CALM (compassionate, accepting, loving, and merciful ) Children of God. God we pray that we may step out boldly with hearts that are afire to seek to do justice and respect everyone's dignity. God we pray that we may be like; Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Biko, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Harvey Milk and all who raised their voices to make this world a better place to live and that justice is rolling down even if it is slow. God we pray that we have the courage to do the unimaginable things to make this world a place of justice, peace, mercy, equality and full of such love energy that we can't help to be united in love, friendship, and familyhood.
We pray these words of 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.
God help us we pray that as we make vigil we may feel your loving and abiding presence among us and through us and that we may be truly united as your family of love. Amen.
God help us to commit to each other every day to be mindful that everyone matters.
God help us we pray to commit our lives to the care of all of our family members nearby and far away.
God help us we pray to commit our Love Energy and Heat Homes to making peace on our streets and through out the world.
God help us we pray to commit our care muscles in the care of all our family members and especially the least of these and our many family members who are ill in body, mind, and spirit.
God help us we pray to commit our compassion muscles in lovingly supporting our family members who are grieving and having life struggles.
God help us we pray to commit our energy to be good conservationists of your Cathedral of Life.
God help us we pray to commit ourselves to the fight of injustice, being a voice for the voiceless, and speaking truth to power and letting justice roll down.
God help us we pray to commit ourselves to the inclusion of all human beings into our lives and be fully accepting of them as our brothers and sisters.
God help us we pray to commit our energies in the service of all our family members who are in trouble, danger, escaping tyranny and unsafe nations.
God help us we pray to commit ourselves to protecting all who labor in factory, farm, and everywhere.
God we commit ourselves to you,
God we commit to being Loving towards you, our family members, and ourselves.
God we commit to walk the walk and talk the talk without fear and reservation,
God we commit to speak lovingly towards each other with dignity and respect.
God we commit to get to know our family members from other faith communities as our brothers and sisters.
God we commit to the affirmation that All Lives Matter and All means All and not Some.
God we commit to enter into daily silence and go deeper to the center to be in communion, conversation, and listening with you and hear with our heart homes and with the necessary Love Energy you Give us.
God we add our additional prayers and thanksgivings now remembering especially__________
Accept these our prayers in name of Jesus the Christ. Amen.
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Good Night Dear Ones! Have a blessed and restful night! I love you and give thanks to God for you this night and always!
Love, peace, joy, and hope,
Sara
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