Day 4

Today's Scripture is suitable for prayerful reading - Lectio Divina.

Stilling: Spend some time becoming quiet are aware you are in the presence of God.

Grace: That I might have a deep sense of the presence of the Risen Lord in this challenging time.

Prayer Suggestion: Is there a word or a phrase from the Scripture or the poem that jumps out at it, allow it to speak to you.

So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.

By the seventh day God completed His work that He had done,

and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.

God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy,

for on it He rested from His work of creation.

Conversation: Talk to God about what it might mean for you.

Finish with a final prayer such as the Lord's Prayer/Our Father

What if you thought of it

as the Jews consider the Sabbath—

the most sacred of times?

Cease from travel.

Cease from buying and selling.

Give up, just for now,

on trying to make the world

different than it is.

Sing. Pray. Touch only those

to whom you commit your life. Center down.

And when your body has become still,

reach out with your heart.

Know that we are connected

in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.

(You could hardly deny it now.)

Know that our lives are in one another’s hands.

(Surely, that has come clear.)

Do not reach out your hands.

Reach out your heart.

Reach out your words.

Reach out all the tendrils of compassion

that move, invisibly, where we cannot touch.

Promise this world your love–

for better or for worse,

in sickness and in health,

so long as we all shall live.

Lynn Ungar 11 March 2020

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