Suggestion for Daily Use

Follow the ‘Daily Prayer’ at the side+++Suivez le ‘Prière Quotidienne’. Read the bible passages and then the meditation. Pray, tell God how you felt about the reading and share the concerns of your life with him. Maybe you will continue the habit after Lent. Lisez les passages bible et après la méditation. Priez, dites à Dieu que vous avez ressenti à propos de la lecture et de partager les préoccupations de votre vie avec lui. Peut-être que vous allez continuer l'habitude après le Carême. Daily Prayer Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. Luke 4.1-2 Now is the healing time decreed For sins of heart, of word or deed, When we in humble fear record The wrong that we have done the Lord. (Latin, before 12th century) Read: Read the Bible passage. Read the meditation Pray: Talk to God about what you have just read. Tell him your concerns - for yourself, your family, our church family, our world. Praise him. Pray the collect for the week – see next pages. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Prière Quotidienne Jésus, rempli de l'Esprit Saint, revint du Jourdain et le Saint-Esprit le conduisit dans le désert où il fut tenté par le diable durant quarante jours. Luc 4.1-2 Maintenant le temps de la guérison est décrété Pour les péchés du cœur, de la parole et des actes, Lorsque nous nous souvenons avec humilité Le mal que nous avons fait au Seigneur. Lire : Lisez le passage de la Bible. Lisez la méditation. Prier : Parlez avec le Seigneur de ce que vous avez lu. Parlez-lui de vos préoccupations pour vous-même, votre famille, notre famille de l’église, notre monde. Louez-le. Priez la collecte pour la semaine. Voyez les pages suivantes Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur ! Que tout qui est en moi bénisse son saint nom. Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur, et n’oublie aucun de ses bienfaits !

11 December 2017

Wait and hope for God's coming/ Attendez et espérez la venue de Dieu

Monday 11th December

Psalm 44        Isaiah 30.1-18    I Thessalonians 1     Matthew 14.1-12
Psaumes 44    Esaie 30.1-18    1 Thessaloniciens 1    Matthieu 14.1-12


Like me, perhaps you have felt like the psalmist. Perhaps you have prayed and toiled and suffered waiting for God to act. Perhaps you have felt abandoned, broken by God. Perhaps you have felt that you
have remembered God and all that God has done, but also that God has not remembered you. Perhaps you’ve called out, “Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?” While the psalmist expresses the doubts and agony that seems to comprise the human condition, at the end of the psalm we are returned to expectant hope: that God will come and set all things to right. Perhaps you’ve yet to return to that hope.

Advent is a time of waiting; it is a time of expectation. It is a time of preparation for the coming of the Christ, who will set things to right, who will rise up and come to our help, who will redeem us for the sake of his steadfast love. May this Advent, may we pray this psalm to the end; may we bring all of ourselves to God -- the struggles and the triumphs -- and may we wait for and hope for God’s coming redemption.

Jeremy Heuslein
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