Harriet Bedell, 1875-1969

                                                     AA Third Step Prayer 

          Relieve 

          me of the 

          bondage  

          to self 

          that I 

          may better

          do Thy will…

Harriet Befell,  

also known as "

Bird Woman" &

Woman Who Prays," born in NY  in 1875, died 

in FL in 1969, "faithful, feisty, & friend” to all," was both deaconess & missionary

 to the  Cheyenne in OK, the Alaska Natives and the Seminoles in FL, driving an average of 20,000 miles year.

 

One 

of 

those 

women 

you 

don’t 

mess

 with. 

Thursday Evening Prayer

                                              Colossians 1:11 

  

 May 

 you 

 be 

 made   

 strong 

 with 

 all 

 the 

 strength 

 that comes 

 from his glorious power 

Today in 1882 my paternal grandfather, Papa, aka Henry Tuft, was born in Tuft Norway

  Psalm 103:15, 16a

Our days 

are like 

the grass; 

we flourish 

like the 

flower of

the field; 

when the 

wind goes 

over it,   

it is gone

Second Vespers of the Epiphany

                           Epiphany Collect 

O God, 

by the leading 

of a star, you 

manifested 

your only Son 

to the peoples 

of the earth: 

lead us who 

know you now 

by faith, to your

presence, that we may 

see your glory face to face

Epiphany

                            Antiphon on Last 

                             Night’s Magnificat 

From the East there came three wise men to Beth-lehem 

to worship the Lord; 

and when they had to opened their treasures, they presented to him precious gifts: gold as to a King, incense as to the true God,& 

myrrh to foreshow his 

burial, alleluia

The Feast of the Epiphany, the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, as Christmas was the manifestation to this own people, the Jews.

                                                        Isaiah 49:6

I 

will 

give 

you 

as a 

light

 to 

the 

nations, 

that 

my salvation 

may reach to the ends of the earth. 

Eve of the Epiphany

                                                   Epiphany Antiphon 

                                                              on Psalm 29

A
scribe 
to the Lord the honor 
due 
his 
Name; 
bring offerings 
and come into his courts.