May you become ancestors who see your children’s children. May you become known for the hospitality of your table. May God favor you with friends who respect you and troubles that neglect you. May God bless your home and all who are home to you.
Loving God, in every generation you bless us with holy womenlike Louise de Marillac, founder of the Daughters of Charity.Thank you for St. Louise and thank you for these holy women I know and know about…They serve you in those around them with love and gladness.
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Creator, open our hearts to peace and healing between all people. Creator, open our hearts to provide and protect for all children of the earth. Creator, open our hearts to respect for the earth, and all the gifts of the earth. Creator, open our hearts to end exclusion, violence, and fear among all. Thank you
You keep your pledge with wonders, O God our Savior, the hope of all the earth and of far distant isles. You uphold the mountains with your strength, you are full of power. You still the roaring of the sea and the roaring of their waves. Psalm 64
Sunday Readings: Acts 10.25-26, 34-35, 44-48; 1 John 4.7-10; John 15.9-17 After his last supper with his disciples Jesus talked with them. “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Live on in my love. You will live in my love if you keep my commandments, even as I have kept my Father’s
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You trace my journey and my resting places, you are familiar with all my paths. There is not a word on my tongue, but you, Lord, know them all. You have a close watch before me and behind me, you spread your hand over me. Such knowledge is beyond my understanding, so high that I
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” The Talmud
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr
Sunday Readings: Acts 9.26-31; 1 John 3.18-24; John 15.1-8 Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me (John 15.3). Sunday’s gospel comes from Jesus’ farewell to his disciples after the last supper. The image
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May the rainbow God, the colorful Christ, and the paradoxical spirit that is the lightness of all being, be with you today and always. Source Unknown