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Prayer of the Day: God of Grace and Glory
03-17-2014
God of grace and glory, you fling the stars into the heavens; you see every sparrow fall. Deepen our trust in the mystery of your power shining through Christ Jesus, that we may live your love for the world. Amen.
- Adapted from Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book
Verse of the Day: Genesis 12:1-3
03-17-2014
Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
- Genesis 12:1-3
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Voice of the Day: Catherine of Siena
03-17-2014
"To the servant of God every place is the right place, and every time is the right time."
- Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena
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Voice of the Day: Shadrach Kabango
03-14-2014
"It's in death and new life when love is made. It's when you're unashamed and finally unafraid. When you confront the pain, face death, and you'll see in the end, only love remains."
- Shadrach Kabango
Shadrach Kabango
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Prayer of the Day: Sacrificial Love
03-14-2014
Lord, help us distinguish between the love that keeps merely human affection in the center of things and love you bore in your sacrificial life, death, and resurrection. O Love that keeps the heavens turning, draw us to you in all our yearnings. Amen.
- Adapted from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:19-21
03-14-2014
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:19-21
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Verse of the Day: Proverbs 16:1-2
03-13-2014
The plans of the mind belong to mortals, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
- Proverbs 16:1-2
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Prayer of the Day: God of Wholeness
03-13-2014
God of wholeness, you call us to live life to the fullest, and to embrace your joy in body, mind, and spirit. Illuminate our senses to see our authentic needs more clearly, and grant us the desire to be made whole in you. Amen.
Voice of the Day: Joan Baez
03-13-2014
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."
- Joan Baez
Joan Baez
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Prayer of the Day: You Are Enough for Us
03-12-2014
Lord, before the heat of the noonday comes, we are already feeling as though our lives are not full enough. Instill in us this morning the assurance that you are enough for us, God. Your love, your call, your work, is enough. Amen.
- Adapted from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
Voice of the Day: Julio C. Ruibal
03-12-2014
"Our greatest victories are won on our knees and with empty stomachs."
- Julio C. Ruibal
Julio C. Ruibal
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Verse of the Day: 2 Corinthians 6:4-7
03-12-2014
As servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left.
- 2 Corinthians 6:4-7
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Verse of the Day: Deuteronomy 30:16
03-11-2014
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in [God's] ways, and observing [God's] commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 30:16
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Voice of the Day: Hildegard of Bingen
03-11-2014
"Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness."
- Bingen Hildegard of
Hildegard of Bingen
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Prayer of the Day: God's Presence in the Ordinary
03-11-2014
God of healing, may your miraculous signs in our world inspire us to deeper faith to see your presence in the ordinary. Give us faith to always see hopeful possibility in the light of your grace. Amen.
Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:39-42
03-10-2014
But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well; and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile. Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you.
- Matthew 5:39-42
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Prayer of the Day: The Fruit of God's Work
03-10-2014
Lord God, when the hungry are fed, the sick healed, the lonely made family, the outcast brought in, the sinner forgiven, the tyrant transformed, and the enemy reconciled, we know your work by the fruit it produces. May our lives bear fruit worthy of your name. Amen.
-Adapted from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
Voice of the Day: Fred Rogers
03-10-2014
“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
- Fred Rogers
Fred Rogers
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Voice of the Day: Corazon Aquino
03-07-2014
"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."
- Corazon Aquino
Corazon Aquino
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Verse of the Day: Psalm 51:14-17
03-07-2014
Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased. The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
- Psalm 51:14-17
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