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You who open your clouds
and let your raindrops fall,
Work within us
the miracle of change,
that your earth
receive the waters of life
and its form be renewed.
–Sophie Michaelis
O Christ, Thou readest
The living book of human destiny.
In all who come to Thee
Thou knowest the inmost soul,
The body’s need, the spirit’s seeking.
In my thought of human beings
May I receive Thy light.
In my experience of human deeds
May I feel Thy will.
May we all, as Thy Community,
Find the right ways
For human souls
Who will to serve Thy Spirit.
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Wednesday:
Lord, You pass over us,
before we even realize it.
You are transforming Yourself,
before we notice it.
— from the Book of Job
Wednesday
–Adam Bittleston
Upon the temple of our body
Worked through the ages
The servants of God
Mighty spiritual creators.
This is now my dwelling;
But it is darkened
By the power of tempters
To whom my soul has listened.
O Christ, against Thee
The voice of temptation
Could achieve nothing.
Thou art the healer
For all our sickness.
Work in this body
That all of its elements,
Its warmth and its breath
Its quickening blood,
The bones which sustain
The form which God gave
Be hallowed by Thee.
Monday:
You are the source of life,
and in Your light.
we see the light.
–from Psalm 36
Monday
–Adam Bittleston
When we go out into the world as we have made it
Everywhere there speaks to us forgetfulness of the Spirit.
If human work were to be without love
The earth would become a bleak and barren desert.
Through forgetfulness of the Spirit
Love ebbs away.
Bring to mind in us, O Christ,
Inspirer of true human love,
How we have come to the earth
From fields of light,
From the heights of the Spirit.
May we bring to earth
What we have seen in the Spirit.
May remembrance of God
Grow strong in our souls
Overcoming the mists
Which hide the meaning
In the work of each day.