Friday Evening Prayer

We will tell 

of your

loving kindness 

early in the 

morning,

O Lord, 

and of your

 faithfulness

in the night season. 

Antiphon Psalm 92

Friday

Jacob 

woke 

from 

his 

sleep 

and 

said 

"Surely 

the 

Lord 

is in 

this 

place 

and I 

did not 

know it.” 

And 

he was 

afraid 

and 

said

"How awesome is this place!

This is none other than the house of God, 

and this is the gate of heaven.”  

Genesis 28:17-18

This comes right after Jacob's dream of the ladder set up between heaven and earth. Too often I just think -“Oh yea! Jacob's ladder! Cool!”and scurry past... But it really struck me again today that this follows hard on the heels of our great and renowned patriarch Jacob stealing his brother Essau's birthright and Then tricking his father Issac out of the blessing that was meant for Essau...  As our friend Paul says somewhere All Scripture is inspired by God and useful...  God's love and self-revelation are demonstrably not reserved for the deserving, the worthy or the good... 

Feb 9th Today would have been Bill Mahedy's 49th anniversary of ordination. This picture is of him and Fr Jack Whitehouse in the early 90s after the fire that destroyed St David's.

in 

all 

that 

you 

do, 

you 

are 

to 

nourish 

Christ’s 

people 

from 

the riches of his grace... 

The Examination at The Ordination of  a Priest

Thursday

The 

sea 

is 

His 

for 

he 

made 

it 

and 

his 

hands 

have 

molded

the 

dry 

land. 

The Venite 

Wednesday, sun after rain

Do not be conformed 

to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may discern what is the will of God - what is good and acceptable and prefect.               

                     Romans 12: 2

I had always assumed, without really thinking about it, that the “will of God” was one thing and it was good and acceptable and prefect. But surely no one thing can be all those things at once! The other day I played a shopping game with almost-three-year-old Eddie. There were a bunch of tiles scattered on the floor that had pictures of food on them and when you matched one up with something on your shopping list, you could put it in the cart.  During my meditation time this morning it struck me that those three things are like the tiles - three different things, one good, one acceptable and one prefect.  The AA program talks somewhere about God making us as perfect as He can given the conditions of any particular day and I like that a lot.  It’s about discernment here - choosing between things - and one is not RIGHT and the other Wrong - or maybe the wrong ones have already been weeded out and so are not on these “tiles.”  Any choice is ok between the good and acceptable and perfect, given the conditions of this particular day and this particular situation... The basic choice is always being conformed to this world or being transformed.... 

Tuesday

He 

led 

them 

with a 

cloud 

by 

day 

and 

all 

night

through with a glow of fire. Psalm 78:14

Monday

                             behold and tend this vine;                                                

                 preserve what your right hand 

                        has planted    Psalm 80:14

                                               February 11, 1996 

                       Groundbreaking on the site of the current St David’s