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 !

06 April 2011

Molehills and Mountains 


Wednesday 6th April
Jeremiah 18.13–end
Ps 63, 90
Hebrews 10.1–18
John 10.11–21

Psalm 63


In Psalm 63 David draws on the image of a barren, thirst-creating desert to illustrate his craving for deeper knowledge of God. Recently, in my first direct experience of the Arabian desert, I was transfixed by the combination of vast space, total silence and absence of distractions, the absolute antithesis of the nearby city, all familiar to Moses, Elijah, John the Baptist and Jesus Himself. Small wonder the Desert Fathers found it perfect for tuning in to that Still, Small Voice; we still owe much to their vision. In the same psalm David speaks of the rather different silence of the “night watches”; I particularly sense Satan’s wiles when awake in the small hours and am striving to turn those periods, as David clearly did, towards stilling my mind, drawing closer to God and knowing Him more closely instead of letting the following day’s routine molehills become stark, threatening mountains...

Simon Robbins

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