[Knitting A Conundrum]

A prayer for our troops

Remember them, O Lord,
Someone's son or daughter,
Husband or wife,
Mother or father,
serving their country.

O Lord, their service is sometimes hard,
sometimes frightening,
and some will give their all.
Be with each one of them,
and hold them in the palm of your hand.

Watch over their families,
and may they be united once again.

Thank you, Lord, for giving us young people
willing to answer their country's need,
willing to serve.  May their actions not go unrewarded.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.


Many things are possible for the person who has hope.  Even more is possible for the person who has faith.  And still more is possible for the  person who knows how to love.  But everything is possible for the person  who practices all three virtues.

- Brother Lawrence (1605-1691)

Prayer To Protect Life

Loving God,
I thank you for the gift you gave and continue to give to me and to all of us.

Merciful God, I ask your pardon and forgiveness for my own failure and the failure of all people to respect your gift of life to us..

Gracious God,
I pray that with your grace, I and all people  will reverence, protect,  and promote repect for life and  that we will be especially  sensitive to the life of  the unborn, the abused,  neglected, disabled, and  the elderly.  I pray, too, that you would guide the hands and hearts of those who must make the hard decisions about life's end and their loved ones.  May they do so with courage, love and wisdom centered on you and your word.
 
Living God,
 I praise and glorify you as  Father, Source of all life,  as Son, Savior of our lives,  and as Spirit, Sanctifier
 of our lives.  Glory to your name.

Amen.

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[Knitting A Conundrum]

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"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew." + Francis de Sales

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It's a beautifully worded kick in the pants. :)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Isaiah 1: 16-20 RSV

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You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
This is a time to reflect on what really matters.

Psalm 90
Of Moses

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.