I did the BCP hours this morning. The past two weeks, vacation/study leave have been great times for daily prayers and I've generally kept to the schedule of 4 times daily prayer. I didn't get very much accomplished on my study leave & I had been feeling bad about that, but I just realized that I think this practice of the daily office has been deepened in two week's time and will continue unabated. Maybe God's agenda for the past two weeks wasn't the same as mine.
The daily office this morning included a reading from Samuel. It's the story of Hannah weeping at the temple, begging God for a child. The story says that God remembered Hannah...same words he used for Noah or Joseph. At the same time,I was remembering all we say about heaven & earth interlocking and overlapping, and how close the place where God lives is to each of us.
It was just a good reminder to trust in the nearness of God, and in the power of God's memory. This morning's prayer time felt, for me, like a time where the veil between God's realm and my realm became thin & the Spirit of God came close. This interlocking and overlapping reality should transform our prayers. I think for me, it is getting easier to discern the reality of the nearness of God.
I've been doing well on the hours this week. I did all 4 yesterday and I think I only missed one office on Tuesday. I'm still plugging away, trying to allow my days to be framed by these prayer times. Right now, I feel myself looking forward to them; anticipating not so much what will happen when I read and pray, but the cumulative effect over time of having ordered my life in this way.
I started the day with the BCP hours...interesting interplay between the story of David and Jesus from Luke, Acts, and the promises made to Samuel's lineage which intersects with Jesus through David whom Samuel annoints.
Read 2Chronicles 1 this morning when Solomon asks God for wisdom above all else...reminded I need to ask for, listen to and rely on God's wisdom everyday, every decision...it seems to make sense that His wisdom would overrule any emotional decision making situations where I frequently find myself stewing.
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I did the BCP hours this morning. The past two weeks, vacation/study leave have been great times for daily prayers and I've generally kept to the schedule of 4 times daily prayer. I didn't get very much accomplished on my study leave & I had been feeling bad about that, but I just realized that I think this practice of the daily office has been deepened in two week's time and will continue unabated. Maybe God's agenda for the past two weeks wasn't the same as mine.
The daily office this morning included a reading from Samuel. It's the story of Hannah weeping at the temple, begging God for a child. The story says that God remembered Hannah...same words he used for Noah or Joseph. At the same time,I was remembering all we say about heaven & earth interlocking and overlapping, and how close the place where God lives is to each of us.
It was just a good reminder to trust in the nearness of God, and in the power of God's memory. This morning's prayer time felt, for me, like a time where the veil between God's realm and my realm became thin & the Spirit of God came close. This interlocking and overlapping reality should transform our prayers. I think for me, it is getting easier to discern the reality of the nearness of God.
I've been doing well on the hours this week. I did all 4 yesterday and I think I only missed one office on Tuesday. I'm still plugging away, trying to allow my days to be framed by these prayer times. Right now, I feel myself looking forward to them; anticipating not so much what will happen when I read and pray, but the cumulative effect over time of having ordered my life in this way.
I started the day with the BCP hours...interesting interplay between the story of David and Jesus from Luke, Acts, and the promises made to Samuel's lineage which intersects with Jesus through David whom Samuel annoints.
I did the BCP hours this morning and the Divine Hours this afternoon. Good stuff
Read 2Chronicles 1 this morning when Solomon asks God for wisdom above all else...reminded I need to ask for, listen to and rely on God's wisdom everyday, every decision...it seems to make sense that His wisdom would overrule any emotional decision making situations where I frequently find myself stewing.
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