Tuesday Evening Prayer on the last day of August in 2021, with the country in the fourth wave and the second year of a global pandemic for which there is vaccine available in this country at least, which e country gravely divided and fracturing friendships and families on a planet that is heating up and causing climate disasters even today.

 

Tuesday, 31 August, 2021

 

    

      What

      good

       is it, 

 my brothers 

  and sisters, 

  to say you

        have 

   faith

 but do not  

     have

       works?

Monday evening

 

Grant that 

we, being

delivered 

from fear,

may live

in peace 

& quietness

…

Monday, 30 August, 2021

  

           To

         you,

      O Lord,

     I lift my

  soul; my God I put my trust in you,

Sunday night

 

Sunday, 29 August, 2021

 

Saturday evening

Saturday, 28 August, 2021*

 

       Some

     put 

   their 

trust 

in chariots, 

and some in horses, 

but we will call upon the Name of the Lord our God.

* Augustine, Bishop of Hippo and

 theologian, born in 354 in North 

Africa, died in Rome in 430.

You have made us for yours- 

self, O God, & our hearts 

are restless until they 

rest in you

Friday evening

 

Friday, 27 August, 2021

 

My 

boundaries 

enclose a 

pleasant 

land;  

indeed, I

have a 

goodly 

heritage. 

Thursday evening

I’ve read this and heard this many times  but I was so 

struck by it tonight. There is no swagger, no  braggado-

cio about them - they didn’t  say “HEY, NOT ME!" but 

a heart-rending question, “Surely not I?”  

Thursday, 26 August, 2021

 

I 

love 

you,  

O Lord 

my strength   

 

Wednesday evening

 

      

    Guide  us

      waking,

      O Lord,

     & guard 

  us  sleeping, 

   that awake 

we may watch 

   with Christ 

    and asleep, 

we may rest in peace. 

Wednesday, 25 August, 2021

 

 

                           pre-

                    serve

                     us  

                  with 

                your 

             mighty

         power 

Tuesday evening

Tuesday, 24 August, 2021

 

Monday evening

Monday, 23 August 2021, a day after the full moon

Sunday evening

   

              

               From the rising

                       of the sun

                               to its 

                             going 

                           down, 

                          let 

                        the

                     Name 

                  of the 

              Lord 

            be 

          praised, 

      hallelujah.

Sunday, 22 August, 2021

 

Grant… 

that your 

church, being 

gathered together 

in unity by your Holy Spirit, 

may show for us your power 

                        among all peoples

Saturday evening

 

Saturday, 21 August, 2021

 

 after the

 creation

   of the

world

you rested . 

 May  we,

putting a-

 way all

  anxieties 

   enter your sabbath rest___________________

Friday night

Friday, 20 August 2021

 

Splendor 

 & honor 

  & kingly 

     power

   are yours 

     by right 

      O Lord 

     our God 

      for you 

     created 

      every- 

       thing 

        that is

         and by your will

            they were created 

                and have their being

Thursday toward sunset

 

Thursday, 19 August, 2021

Wednesday evening

                                  pri·or·i·ty

                                                                      /prīˈôrədē/ noun   

The fact or condition of being regarded or treated as more important.

"the safety of the country takes priority over any other matter"

Wednesday, 18 August, 2021

Tuesday evening

 

                        He had 

                        still one 

                            other, 

                     a beloved 

                   son. Finally

                  he sent him

                        to them

                          saying

                           "They 

                           will 

                        respect 

                    my son."

Tuesday, 17 August, 2021

 

 

                I

            lift

         up 

    my eyes

 to the hills.

From where

  is my  help

     to come?

            My help comes from the Lord, 

                  the maker of heaven and earth.