Monday, 29 August, 2022

Sunday approaching evening

Tuesday evening

Wednesday evening

Friday at Evening Prayer

                                                                 Psalm 51:11

Create in me

a clean heart, 

O God, & renew 

a right spirit within me. 

Wesneday in Holy Week

                     Jeremiah 17:3-6 

 those who trust in mere mortals

and make mere flesh their strength… shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in parched places in the wilderness. 

Celebrating Thomas Merton, contemplative and writer (1915-1968) and the day on which Jack Whitehouse's was born

                                                                      Psalm 37:15

     in you, O Lord, have I fixed my hope

The beginning of love 

 is to let those we love 

be perfectly them-

selves, and not to 

twist them to fit 

our own image. 

Otherwise we love 

only the reflection 

of ourselves we find in them.               

                                 - Thomas Merton

                              

Tuesday

                                                      Psalm 26: 8   

Lord, 

I love 

the 

house 

in which you dwell and 

the place were your glory abides.

Labor Day, and so another summer ends

  Antiphon on Psalm 25

Lead me in your truth, 

O Lord and teach me. 

O Lord our God, “keep us ever mindful of the power you share with us that we may create only that which leads to peace.”        Diana Maccalyintal from Give US This Day 

Friday

                                                          Psalm 142:3

When my spirit languishes within me, you know my  path.

John Mason Neal, priest (1866) and Catherine Winkworth (1878), hymn writers

                                                         Psalm 121:1,2

I lift up my eyes to the hills; from where is my help to come? My help comes form the Lord, 

the make of heaven and earth. 

Let's hear it for hymns!  
Neal translated the words of  “Christ is made the sure foundation“ (and if that doesn't start singing itself in your head, you are not a cradle Episcopalian: do yourself a favor and Google it!  -  I did,  just to bask in it again, and saw a You Tube of the old Pope and the old Archbishop of Canterbury at a service together.) And   “If thou but trust in God to guide thee.”  was translated by Winkwort.h.

I'm with St Augustine who said "She who sings, prays twice." although I just may have changed his pronoun.... 

The Lutheran New Book…  suggests prayers today for, among other things, those who revise and translate hymns that new ages may sing old songs. 

Last Evening of Daylight Savings Time

                                                                                 Psalm 138:4

When 
I 
called, 
you 
an-swered me, 
you
in-creased my strength within me. 

Thursday already

                                                                               Psalm 50:14 

Who- ever offers me 
the sacri- fice 
of thanksgiving honors me, 
but to those who keep my way 
I will show the salvation of God. 

midweek of midmonth

                                           The Venite

in God’s hand are the cav-erns of the earth and the heights 

of the hills are his also 

Thursday

                                                          Psalm 23: 3

               God 

               revives
               my 

               soul 

               he 

               leads 

               me 

               along 

               right 

               pathways for his Name’s sake. 

Friday, awoke to rain

  psalm 142:3a

when my 
spirit 
languishes 
within me, 
you know 
my path 

Sunday morning

                    O God, my God, eagerly I seek you; 

my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you as in a barren and dry land 
where there is no water.      
Psalm 63:1

Tuesday

                                     Psalm 121:1-2

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.

Evening Prayer

                                                                                                          Psalm 138:1-2                                              

Lord,

you have

searched me out and known me; 

you know my sitting down 

and my rising up; 

You trace my journeys and my resting places...

Thursday

Psalm 37:5

Commit your 

way to the 

Lord & put 
your trust
in him.