| You are my refuge . . . |
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| TODAY: Choose a psalm, and offer it as a prayer. |
When tempers are short, patience gone,
When words are unkind, actions uncaring.
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| You are my strength . . . |
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When I remember that I am a beloved child of yours
What I do in your name is right and honorable and just. |
| I need not fear in times of trouble . .
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Your loving touch can lift me from the greatest depths
When there is no answer to: Why me? Why now? What next? |
| You are the river whose streams make glad
the Holy city . . . |
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Its flow, its life-giving spirit saves, rejuvenates,
energizes. |
| When you are within me, I will not fall
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There is a place that only you can fill
When I welcome you, walk with you,
When you hold my hand, I am steady and sure. |
| You will help me at the break of day . .
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I hold onto that promise as the nights of my soul are
desolate and dark
How I wait for the warmth and glow of reassurance as it rises over
the horizon. |
| You, Lord Almighty, are with me . . . |
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Everywhere I see you,
In the rays of the sun through the clouds
In a newborn’s perfect fingers and toes,
In a chance meeting with one who can help. |
| Come, behold your works . . . |
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Created in your image, trusted guardians of all that
you wrought
We strive to claim it, control it, to wrestle it from one another. |
| You, who can make wars cease . . . |
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Oh, that you might sow a love that would bring a perfect
and lasting
peace
A love among nations and peoples, no matter their race or gender or
age
A compassion for all of your creatures. |
| “Be still and know that I am God”.
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I am restless
I hear you calling
I know. |
| Amen. |