___________________________Psalm 73:24_
Though
my
flesh
and
my
heart
should
waste
away,
God is my strength and my portion for ever.
Tieoplo Sky
Tiepolo Clouds
Friday, July 31, 2020
Friday, the last day of July
________________Isaiah 55:11 (Canticle 10)_
my
word
will
not
return
to me
empty,
but will accomplish that which I purposed,
and proser in that for which I sent it.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Thursday, the penultimate day of July, 2020
_ ____________________________Psalm 71:3
Be
my
strong
rock, a
castle to keep me safe
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Wednesday evening
_Psalm 119: 93________________
Let
your
loving-
ind-
ness
be my
comfort
as you
have
promised
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Tuesday evening
Psalm 68:19
Bless-
ed be
the
Lord
day
by
day,
the
God
of our
salvation
who bears our burdens.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
I sat out back to do my meditation - my summer prayer place - and I thought I would just take a look at the lection-ary to see if there was a particular focus. And there surely was - one of my favorites! Psalm 62:1. I even took and edited a picture and I thought, "Done!"
________________________Psalm 62:1a_
For
God
alone
my
soul
in
silence
waits.
But no, neither it nor I was done, as in check it off the list and move happily on, quite self-satisfied, No, it was more like Checkmate! "It is a lovely verse, but it's not todays" the Voice whispered kindly. I contuniued on, found my verse, spoke it to Siri (that quintessent-ial pagan scribe heard it as "forgot the loan!" Our hearing is so often garbled,) and read on through Morning Prayer. The Gospel reading was the crucifix-ion and the verse clicked into place. When I came in to compose the blog, I still I had no image. I tried “wooden cross,” envisioning maybe a close up of the place where the 2 planks meet, but the first image I saw was this one and I went on by, thinking "NU-UH!" with the absolute conviction of my daughter’s voice. “No, really - it’s prefect” God insisted, and chuckled. And it was. God does good work.
________________________Psalm 62:13_
God
has
spoken
once,
twice
have I heard it,
that power belongs to God.
When I finished the blog
I saw that the first verse was not a mistake at all
but a stepping stone. “Better work than you
even knew, huh?!” God laughed "I don't al-
ways just "blot out." Sometimes I Utilize
Have you understood all this?"
Yes, I happily said, and
he laughed again.
Monday, July 27, 2020
Monday evening
____________________Psalm 65:3_
_
Our sins
are stronger
than we
are,
but
you
will
blot
them
out.
The last Monday in July, 2020
__________Psalm 57:7_
My
heart
is firmly
fixed, O
God, my
heart is
fixed; I
will sing
and make melody.
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Sunday evening
Collect
O God,
without
whom
nothing
is strong,
nothing
is holy,
O God,
without
whom
nothing
is
Sunday, July 26, 2020
___________________________________Psalm 29:11_
The Lord shall give
strength to his people;
the Lord shall give his people
the blessing of peace.
It was clearly my verse & the image was of our altar at St David’s set up for Sunday morning. Then the first reading added to it. "I brought your ancestors out of Egypt & afterwards you lived in the wilderness a long time." . If you should go Into the church, it is still garbed in purple, as if Easter had not happened and time is suspended, the wilderness stretching behind and before, not being able to be physically together physically at God’s altar. Which leads me back to the verse: the promise, the hope and the comfort.
The Lord shall give
strength to his people;
the Lord shall give his people
the blessing of peace.
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Saturday, July 25, 2020, The Feast of St James, Apostle
Follow me ———————>
James was called along with this brother John, whom Jesus nicknamed "The Sons of Thunder."
James was martyred early on by Herod and tradition says that his body was taken to Compostela Spain, which remains a site
of pilgrimage. The
trail signs all along
the Camino use his symbol, the scollop shell - (here styized) the brothers were fihsermen, mending the nets in
their father Zebedee's boat when when Jesus called them and they up and left Zebedee in
the boat with the hired men, a lovely little detail.
Tangentially,
but hard to
make out here,
our diocesan
seal has the
scallop shell
at the bottom
since our first
bishop, Bob
Wolterstorff
came from St James, La Jolla.
Friday, July 24, 2020
Friday toward evening
_Phos hileron_______________
Now, as
we come
to the
setting of
the sun
and our
eyes be-
hold the
vesper
light,
we sing
your praises,
O God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit…
Friday, July 24, 2020*
_Friday Collect___________
grant
that we,
walking
in the
way of
the cross,
may
find it
none
other
than
the way of life and peace
*Thomas à Kempis
15th c priest and
author of
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Thursday evening
________________Romans 15:6_
May the
God of
steadfast-
ness and
encourage-
ment grant
you to live
in harmony with one another ________
Thursday, July 23, 2020
_for Guidance_
…so
guide
+ gov-
ern us
us by
your
Holy
Spirit
that in
all the
cares + occupations of our live,
we may not forget you, but
may ever remember that we are
walking in your sight…
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Second Evensong of Mary Magdalene
________________Psalm 34:6_
I called
in my
affection
and the
Lord an-
swered
ed me
deliver-
ed me from all my trouble.
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