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Today's Scripture is suitable to use with Lectio Divina
Stilling: Come into the presence of God and still yourself
Grace: In this time of anxiety, to see your life more as God sees it. To see with God your deeper self, the person behind all the activity, a person made in God’s image.
Prayer Suggestion: Ponder quietly the words from the Gospel of John. You may like to consider the words in a Lectio Divina style of prayer.
John 12:24-26 HCSB
John 12:24-26 HCSB
“I assure you: Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it remains by itself.
But if it dies, it produces a large crop.
The one who loves his life will lose it,
and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me.
Where I am, there My servant also will be.
If anyone serves Me, the Father will honour him.
Conversation: What stands out for you in the prayer?
Let that lead you to a conversation with God.
Notice where God is inviting you to growth, is there anything you need to let go of?
Final Prayer: As usual end your prayer with your favourite formal prayer, such as the 'Our Father' - The Lord's Prayer.
Unless a grain of wheat
Dreams in daytime weariness
Are menacing my heart.
Enmeshing me in memory
Tearing me apart.
Insisting that I listen
And let the grieving start.
Come and let the rains fall
Softening up the earth.
Come and let the frost bring
Truth to a new birth.
Come and let the healing
Heal and bring new mirth.
So the Voice is whispering
Peace is born of pain.
So the Presence teaches me
Nothing dies in vain.
Tears are for the sowing
Bread of Life from grain.
(Madeleine Gorham)
A Thought for Today
A Thought for Today
We need, in love, to practice only this:
letting each other go.
For holding on comes easily;
we do not need to learn it.
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