Prayers and Thoughts

for Reflection

Lenton Devotional

2007

February 23

You shall love the Lord your god with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.

Luke 10:27

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

Life is currently described in one of four ways:  a journey, a battle, a pilgrimage, or a race.  Select your own metaphors, but the necessity of finishing is all the same.  For if life is a journey, it must be completed.  If life is a pilgrimage, it must be concluded.  And if life is a race, it must be won.

The War Cry

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao-Tzu

The great love of God is an ocean without a bottom or a shore.

C H. Spurgeon

The unfailing love of the Lord never ends!

Lamentations 3:22

Heavenly Father, teach me to trust in Your love and to leave my life in Your hands.  Guide me in reaching out to others.  May I be a channel of Your peace and calmness where there is fear and anxiety.  Help me to remember that You will strengthen me to face all difficulties.  I know You will not desert me when I call to You with faith and trust.  Lord, show me how to accept Your power in every part of me, so that You can be seen in my every action and heard in my every word.   Awaken me O God, to what I am and help me to become the most I can be for You.  Amen.