Sunday prayer

Lord, this is the day we have set aside to worship you, to consider your word, to gather with your people as one family. Help us not to waste the day with fussing, but to confess what needs confessing and do what needs doing. May our wills indeed be lost in yours. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

A Prayer for Christian Couples

A Prayer for Christian Couples

Dear Lord, we married each other believing that we held a mutual love and respect for one another, and we each made vows to be faithful in our love and respect until death.

We knew that tough times would come, but we did not know when they would come or what shape they would take. Now we ask you to help us through this time.

à Keep us from using words that we will have to take back;

à Keep us honest about ourselves, and forgiving to the other;

à Keep us from bitterness and selfish points of view in our conversation;

à Help us to see our marriage not as you and me, but as us.

à Help us, as your Word commands, to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

In his name we pray, Amen.

Lessons for the Lost

You’re likelier to get lost if you don’t prepare for the journey.

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You’re never more lost than when you think you know where you are, but you don’t.

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The easiest way to get lost is to stop paying attention to your journey.

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You’re never more lost when you think you know the way, but you don’t.

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The easiest way to get more lost is to interpret the directions rather than follow them.

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Even when you get to your destination, it may well be too late to do what you came to do.

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Isaiah 30:21

Here I Am, Lost in the Crowd

This may or may not work for me, but now is a good time to try because the e-zine to which I usually contribute (to a much wider readership than this will attract, I think) is down and I feel orphaned. We'll see how it goes. It is late Saturday afternoon, the intern pastor is preaching tomorrow, so I am not as under the as sometimes and it is late to start something new. Like every other blogger in the universe, I have stuff to share--sort of like putting stuff in the alley for anybody to pick who wants to before the sanitation people haul it away. It may be new to you!