Wednesday evening

I have other sheep 
that do not belong 
to this fold. 

I must bring 
them also
and they will listen 
to my voice. 
So, there will be
one flock, one shepherd.    John 10:10-11

Wednesday

O Lord, 

in your word 

is my trust 

Psalm 119:147b

Tuesday , April 12th

I lift my eyes to the hills; from here is my help to come? 

My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.                       Psalm 121: 1,2 

Monday

Be 

my strong rock, 

a castle 

to keep me safe 

Psalm 31: 3

The Fifth Sunday in Lent

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Am I a God near by, says the Lord, and not a God far off?   Do I not fill heaven and earth?     Jeremiah 23:23-24

The Commemoration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian an Martyr (2/4/1906-4/9/1945)

Wake up, 

my spirit; 

Awake, 

lute & harp, 

I myself 

will waken 

the dawn. 

Psalm 108:2

Friday

I am once again 

convinced 

that neither death nor life, 

nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything in all creation will be able to separate us from the  love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Based on Romans 8:38  
We have to be convinced and converted over and over again as is hinted in today’s reading in Jeremiah. (23:1-8) It's not enough simply  to remember that God brought our ancestors out of Egypt in the past, we need to know that God Brings us, the children of that promise, out of the lands to which we have been scattered. And scattered we get, by loss and illness, diminishment and grief, all  “the many and varied changes of this life.”   We are the people of the Way and even in our prayers for the dead we pray that they may "go from strength to strength in the life of perfect freedom.”  

I love the last line of today’s Forward Day By Day: 

http://forwardmovement.org/Today-s-Meditation/

We don’t get back what we’ve lost; 

we get what we never had.”