I did my early morning prayers today when I woke up, then did the BCP office when I got in to work.
I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with the mountain of things I've got to get done over the next few weeks. Please pray that I'll be at peace and just work the next thing & be present to God in the moment.
I haven't been very good with my spiritual disciplines over the past 2 weeks which is probably why I am feeling such a heavy weight on my shoulders these days! I am finding it very hard to balance work and family and personal time right now. I hate this feeling but know it will pass. My goal is to get back on track with my spiritual disciplines this week and see if that helps me feel better. I am really kind of in the dumps but have no true reason for it.
Scott, I hope your dad came out of his surgery okay today. I prayed for him and for you this afternoon. Signing off.
I read Psalm 31 yesterday in honor of Scott's dad and then I read 25. They really spoke to me so this morning I read Psalm 28. I can not shake the "bummed out" feeling I have but it occurred to me I haven't really asked God to remove it. So, I asked him to do so. I have no reason to be feeling this way. I am hoping he will lift it from me and help me celebrate the joys in my life.
Tim and Scott-thanks for getting me the stuff to study. I am going to listen to the first CD today. I am excited. My reading group starts this week again and we are reading a systematic theology essay for this go around...
Have a happy Wednesday. Oh, and Scott-GREAT NEWS about your dad. Praise God!
First of all, thanks be to God for bring my Dad through safely. We're not out of the woods yet, but we've made our way through the first part of the adventure. By this I mean that he has to make regular visits for the next five years before he is officially declare "free" from cancer. Sara, thanks for the reading Psalm 31. That means a lot to me and I know it would him.
I'm finding myself revisiting my rule of life. Not really sure where this is going but I'm looking at it again and tweaking it and trying to make sense of it and what it is supposed to be doing for me.
The Psalter had me reading Psalm 139 this morning. What a friggin' awesome text!
Sara, I hear you about being "bummed" out. For me it's sort of a melancholy, what's-it-all-for kind of thing. I've been that way for a couple of weeks. Today is the first day that I feel like I might be coming out of it. I've been really challenged in the class I have taking right now, which I think has been a means of grace for me.
Tim, I'm praying for you for strength and peace, for the energy of God through the Spirit to be upon you as we walk together these next few months together. Remember ... mustard seeds and mountains, mustard seeds and mountains.
Hey Everyone! I'm writing at 10:36 because I just now finally did the morning office from the BCP.
I'm reading everyone's account of their spiritual torpor and realizing what a fragile bunch we are. But our God is strong to save us, even from ourselves. My prayer for everyone right now is that you will meet our God in silence and in the meditations of your heart, and that God will come to us all and heal us, strengthen us, protect us, and fit us with joy and peace...
I did the early morning office when I woke up, and just finished the morning office from the BCP. I'm trusting that these prayers will continue to strengthen me each day. I know that God is meeting me when I stop and turn to him. I'm really grateful for that.
A strange thought came over me last night as I prayed in the evening. It was sort of a realization of why it is so difficult for me to pray at night. At the end of the day I am overcome with the reality that I am frail and need the grace of God to live. I usually feel the most guilty during these times and often feel like I don't measure up. Anyways, I feel a ramble coming on so I will stop and ask for prayer. And pray.
We are quite the bunch; all the while moving into a season when we need to be so strong and positive about where we're headed and why.
I came across this passage in my daily reading when I was at my lowest this summer...in the midst of all the "lamenting" this was there...
Lamentations 3:21-26... Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quitely for the salvation of the Lord.
Then in vs. 57 & 58... You came near when I called You, and You said, "Do not fear." O Lord, You took up my case; You redeemed my life.
I read it everyday for now - helps me tweak my perspective and remember I'm being redeemed.
I'm praying for all of you. Please keep us (and the boys) in your prayers while we're away. You'll not be far from my every thought and experience! God bless.
Thanks everyone for taking part & sharing both our frailty and the Word of God that strengthens us here on this blog. I keep remembering the talk Isaac gave this summer on joy. It reminds me that joy is an irrational choice. "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice," would be insensitive to those who struggle if it weren't written from prison! "Joy is the serious business of heaven," C.S. Lewis wrote. May heaven come to earth today and may each of us step into the joyful realization that we are precious children of the father. He loves us and loves when we try to do crazy things to further his kingdom. And may God grant us joy, each of us in our own way!!
Today I did my early morning prayers and then just completed the morning office from the BCP. It was a rich time of prayer. I'm ready to write a sermon - hopefully one which does not suck!!
With all respect to all of you. I like this blog. i must admit, i have not been praying, but reading through, i closed my eyes and it came to me so many good memories when i was going to church and praying many times every day. This blog really touched my heart. May God bless you all.
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I did my early morning prayers today when I woke up, then did the BCP office when I got in to work.
I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with the mountain of things I've got to get done over the next few weeks. Please pray that I'll be at peace and just work the next thing & be present to God in the moment.
-t
I did the early morning office and the morning office when I got in to work today. Looking forward to spending time with you guys this morning!
-t
I haven't been very good with my spiritual disciplines over the past 2 weeks which is probably why I am feeling such a heavy weight on my shoulders these days! I am finding it very hard to balance work and family and personal time right now. I hate this feeling but know it will pass. My goal is to get back on track with my spiritual disciplines this week and see if that helps me feel better. I am really kind of in the dumps but have no true reason for it.
Scott, I hope your dad came out of his surgery okay today. I prayed for him and for you this afternoon. Signing off.
I read Psalm 31 yesterday in honor of Scott's dad and then I read 25. They really spoke to me so this morning I read Psalm 28. I can not shake the "bummed out" feeling I have but it occurred to me I haven't really asked God to remove it. So, I asked him to do so. I have no reason to be feeling this way. I am hoping he will lift it from me and help me celebrate the joys in my life.
Tim and Scott-thanks for getting me the stuff to study. I am going to listen to the first CD today. I am excited. My reading group starts this week again and we are reading a systematic theology essay for this go around...
Have a happy Wednesday. Oh, and Scott-GREAT NEWS about your dad. Praise God!
First of all, thanks be to God for bring my Dad through safely. We're not out of the woods yet, but we've made our way through the first part of the adventure. By this I mean that he has to make regular visits for the next five years before he is officially declare "free" from cancer. Sara, thanks for the reading Psalm 31. That means a lot to me and I know it would him.
I'm finding myself revisiting my rule of life. Not really sure where this is going but I'm looking at it again and tweaking it and trying to make sense of it and what it is supposed to be doing for me.
The Psalter had me reading Psalm 139 this morning. What a friggin' awesome text!
Sara, I hear you about being "bummed" out. For me it's sort of a melancholy, what's-it-all-for kind of thing. I've been that way for a couple of weeks. Today is the first day that I feel like I might be coming out of it. I've been really challenged in the class I have taking right now, which I think has been a means of grace for me.
Tim, I'm praying for you for strength and peace, for the energy of God through the Spirit to be upon you as we walk together these next few months together. Remember ... mustard seeds and mountains, mustard seeds and mountains.
Hey Everyone! I'm writing at 10:36 because I just now finally did the morning office from the BCP.
I'm reading everyone's account of their spiritual torpor and realizing what a fragile bunch we are. But our God is strong to save us, even from ourselves. My prayer for everyone right now is that you will meet our God in silence and in the meditations of your heart, and that God will come to us all and heal us, strengthen us, protect us, and fit us with joy and peace...
-t
I did the early morning office when I woke up, and just finished the morning office from the BCP. I'm trusting that these prayers will continue to strengthen me each day. I know that God is meeting me when I stop and turn to him. I'm really grateful for that.
-t
A strange thought came over me last night as I prayed in the evening. It was sort of a realization of why it is so difficult for me to pray at night. At the end of the day I am overcome with the reality that I am frail and need the grace of God to live. I usually feel the most guilty during these times and often feel like I don't measure up. Anyways, I feel a ramble coming on so I will stop and ask for prayer. And pray.
We are quite the bunch; all the while moving into a season when we need to be so strong and positive about where we're headed and why.
I came across this passage in my daily reading when I was at my lowest this summer...in the midst of all the "lamenting" this was there...
Lamentations 3:21-26...
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quitely for the salvation of the Lord.
Then in vs. 57 & 58...
You came near when I called You, and You said, "Do not fear."
O Lord, You took up my case; You redeemed my life.
I read it everyday for now - helps me tweak my perspective and remember I'm being redeemed.
I'm praying for all of you. Please keep us (and the boys) in your prayers while we're away. You'll not be far from my every thought and experience! God bless.
Thanks everyone for taking part & sharing both our frailty and the Word of God that strengthens us here on this blog. I keep remembering the talk Isaac gave this summer on joy. It reminds me that joy is an irrational choice. "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice," would be insensitive to those who struggle if it weren't written from prison! "Joy is the serious business of heaven," C.S. Lewis wrote. May heaven come to earth today and may each of us step into the joyful realization that we are precious children of the father. He loves us and loves when we try to do crazy things to further his kingdom. And may God grant us joy, each of us in our own way!!
Today I did my early morning prayers and then just completed the morning office from the BCP. It was a rich time of prayer. I'm ready to write a sermon - hopefully one which does not suck!!
-t
With all respect to all of you. I like this blog. i must admit, i have not been praying, but reading through, i closed my eyes and it came to me so many good memories when i was going to church and praying many times every day. This blog really touched my heart. May God bless you all.
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