Pray in secret through four movements of your heart.
First orient yourself toward a caring yet mysterious God.
Second align your desires with God’s great desire for a just and compassionate world. Third bring to God your needs and concerns both physical and spiritual.
Finally, prepare to enter the public world of temptation and oppression, trusting God to guide you and strengthen you.

p. 146, Chpt 31, The Choice is Yours, We Make the Road by Walking. Brian D. McLaren

Bring ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Bertha Mae Lillenas

Bring your load of doubts and fears.

All the burdens of the years.

you may meet your savior and his blessings share.

Bring your troubles not a few, Jesus will your strength renew; Leave your burden at the place of prayer.N

As someone has said, he who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then to discover that the prisoner was you.

Mark Kropf, Halsey Oregon
Beside the Still waters
Volume 28, issue 4

May all that is unforgiven in you be released.

May your fears yield from their deepest tranquilities.

May all that is unlived in you blossom

into a future

Lived with grace

John ODonahue

Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, there with to be content.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.

Morning prayer

Lord, thank you for this day. I offer it to you. Make me the person you want me to be. Help me walk with you and honor you today. Use me today to accomplish your purposes, and help me reflect your love to all that I meet, in Jesus’ name amen.

Invitation prayer

Jesus Christ, I wish to be one of your followers. I offer my life to you. Help me to trust you, to love you, and to relieve the suffering of others. Forgive my sins. Fill me with your spirit. Make me the person you want me to be.

Evening prayer

Gracious God, thank you for today. I am grateful for your blessings in my life. Please forgive me for those moments when I failed to live as your child today. As I sleep tonight may your Holy Spirit shape me as a potter shapes the clay. Once more I offer my life to you, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

New Testament, common English Bible.

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.