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Healing prayers for Bill Holland. He just got back home from eye surgery.

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STUDY-FUMC Prayer & Study Group-March 8, 2022-1

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STUDY-FUMC Prayer & Studay Group-March 8, 2022-1

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Pages 155-159

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The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.

-John Main

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O Lord my God.

Teach my heart this day

where and how to find you.

You have made me and re-made me,

and you have bestowed on me

all the good things I possess,

and still I do not know you.

I have not yet done

that for which I was made.

Teach me to seek you,

for I cannot seek you

unless you teach me,

or find you

unless you show yourself to me.

Let me seek you in my desire;

let me desire you in my seeking.

Let me find you by loving you;

let me love you when I find you.

—St. Anselm

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I just posted the readings for last week and this week. Sarah has walking pneumonia and Lillian another ear infection...and I ended up at the walk -in clinic on Palm Sunday. I am on antibiotics, steroids' and an inhaler to add :)

All is well with my soul !

Prayers for you and yours for this beautiful Easter week!

God Bless!

Lindsay

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pages 148-154

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"A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted though it be employed in many works; for that it works all to the honor of God, and inwardly being still and quiet, seeks not itself in any thing it doth."

—  Thomas à Kempis

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It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Pages 141-147

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Simplicity-4-5-22 Prayer & Study Group-1

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Passion Song - The Story Of Holy Week (Lyric Video) by @scartermusic

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Passion Song - The Story Of Holy Week (Lyric Video) by @scartermusic

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Pages 127-138

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“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.”
― St. Clare of Assisi

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“There is a living God who made all things. And immediately the cloud and temptation vanished away, and the life rose over it all, and my heart was glad, and I praised the living God.” - 1648 Journal of George Fox

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Pages 119-126

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"Peace if possible; truth at all costs."
-Martin Luther

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Pages 111-118

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“The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

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Pages 99-106

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“may I never rest till I have the witness of the Spirit, that my heart is the temple of an indwelling God,”
― Phoebe Palmer, The Way of Holiness: With Notes by the Way; Being a Narrative of Religious Experience

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Pages 93-98

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“If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.”
- J.B. Phillips

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Pages 86-92

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Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

-Lilias Trotter

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Pages 79-85

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What does Mark 12:30 mean? | BibleRef.com

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Mark 12:30, NIV: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'

Mark 12:30, ESV: And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'

Mark 12:30, KJV: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

Mark 12:30, NASB: AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.'

Mark 12:30, NLT: And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.'

Mark 12:30, CSB: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

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Mark 12:30, NIV: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' Mark 12:30, ESV: And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'

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Not certain this is the spot for prayer thoughts but I would like to say that I have been spending time daily thinking about my discussion with God and asking for His forgiveness, my improvement as a person and father.  Also, offering my thanks for so many things that continue to grow in number - current and in the past.

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Not certain this is the spot for prayer thoughts but I would like to say that I have been spending time daily thinking about my discussion with God and asking for His forgiveness, my improvement as a person and father.  Also, offering my thanks for so many things that continue to grow in number - current and in the past.

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I also ask for His help for good health and guidance for so many people. Now this my seem like ordinary prayer but it’s not for me it’s much more thoughtful than my prayers used to be. I do feel I’m becoming closer to God. Bill

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Pages 73-76

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He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
-William Law

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Pages 67-72

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“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

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Pages 62-66

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"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

- John Henry Newman

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Pages 57 - 61

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“Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything”
-- Catherine Marshall

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Pages 48-54

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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Simone Weil

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Pages 43- 47

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Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

Agnes Sanford

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Pages 37-42

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“Prayer is the superabundance of the heart. It is brim-full and running over with love and praise, as once it was with Mary, when the Word took root in her body. So too, our heart breaks out into a Magnificat. Now the Word has achieved its 'glorious course' (2 Thess. 3:1): it has gone out from God and been sown in the good soil of the heart. Having now been chewed over and assimilated, it is regenerated in the heart, to the praise of God. It has taken root in us and is now bearing its fruit: we in our turn utter the Word and send it back to God. We have become Word; we are prayer.”
― André Louf, Teach Us to Pray

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Page 31-36

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Marguerite Porete gets to me every time. Anyone like to share what they experience while reading?

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Sorry, everyone, we will continue reading and we will discuss Prayer and Fasting on the January 11th Zoom Meeting. Due to our family having Covid. If I don't see or talk to you Merry Christmas to you and yours!

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THE POWER OF PRAYER | Connect With God - Inspirational & Motivational Video

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“Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience makes doubtful what is certain, and turns a very short time into a long one. Dream that the more you struggle the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.”

- St. Teresa of Avila

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Would anyone like to share what they experienced during the Week 2 reading?

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Advent Reading & Meditation - Sunday 11/28/21

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Advent Reading & Meditation - Sunday 11/28/21

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You have a 3 month free trial with Hallow. This is a Catholic app but it has really good spiritual rhythms in it. (Daily Lectio Divina, meditations and readings)

Join me in Hallow's Community Challenge: #Pray25 with Mary
https://hallow.com/challenges/33

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Meditation: Week 4 Reading

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“Reason, you'll always be half-blind.”
― Marguerite Porete

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My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.

And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,

though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though
I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

“The Merton Prayer” from Thoughts in Solitude

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Joyce Huggett explored with her husband the concept of God having spoken in Scripture and still speaking in the depths of our hearts as we listen to him. She writes:

As we talked, he seemed to put his finger on the nub of the matter with a memorable observation: 'Listening to God is not about newness but about nowness. It is receiving the applied Word in whatever form God chooses to make it known.'

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"I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first."
-Thomas More

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Meditation: Week 3 Reading

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Meditation: Week 2 Reading

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As we go deep into prayer and study let us use this board to communicate during the month!

Even if it is scripture, a quote, an experience, an image….Post it!

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Prayer & Study Group Schedule and Zoom link

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Meditation: Week 1 Reading

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Spiritual Classics: Selected Readings on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines

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If you don’t want to buy the book I will add a weekly pdf. file :)

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Spiritual Classics: Selected Readings on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines

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Spiritual Classics: Selected Readings on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines [Renovare, Richard J. Foster, Emilie Griffin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Spiritual Classics: Selected Readings on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines