Prayers and Meditations

 

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Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief.

Bible – Mark 9:24

 

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If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.

 

And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

 

And if I dole out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I may boast but have not love, nothing am I profited.

 

Love is long suffering, love is kind, it is not jealous, love does not boast, it is not inflated.

 

It is not discourteous, it is not selfish, it is not irritable, it does not enumerate the evil.

 

It does not rejoice over the wrong, but rejoices in the truth.

 

It covers all things, it has faith for all things, it hopes in all things, it endures in all things.

 

Love never falls in ruins; but whether prophecies, they will be abolished; or tongues, they will cease; or knowledge, it will be superseded.

 

For we know in part and we prophecy in part.

 

But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded.

 

When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I reckoned as an infant; when I became an adult, I abolished the things of the infant.

 

For now we see through a mirror in an enigma, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know as also I was fully known. But now remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

 

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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I will not die and unlived life.

I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,

to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing,

a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

Fully Alive – Dawna Markova

 

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For food that stays our hunger,

For rest that brings us ease,

For homes where memories linger,

We give our thanks for these.

Traditional – Mealtime Blessing

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Praise God from whom all blessings Flow;

praise him, all creatures here below;

praise him above, ye heavenly host;

praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost

 

 

traditional hymn – words by thomas ken – 1674

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As the rain hides the stars,

as the autumn mist

hides the hills,

as the clouds veil

the blue of the sky, so

the dark happenings of my lot

hide the shining of thy face from me.

Yet, if I may hold they hand in the darkness,

it is enough, since I know,

that though may stumble in my going,

Thou dost not fall.

Traditional-scottish gaelic

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Live loyally today

–grow—

and tomorrow will attend to itself.

The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole.

Urantia Book – 1094:06

 

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St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace –

that where there is hatred, I may bring love –

that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness –

that where there is discord, I may bring harmony –

that where there is error, I may bring truth –

that where there is doubt, I may bring faith –

that where there is despair, I may bring hope –

that where there are shadows, I may bring light.

that where there is sadness, I may bring joy –

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted –

to understand, than to be understood –

to love, than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen.

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Third Step Prayer

GOD, I offer myself to Thee — to build with me and to do with me as

Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always! AMEN