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Saturday, June 24
Saturday, June 24 “What is essential in prayer is not that we learn to express ourselves, but that we learn to answer God. The Psalms show us how to answer.” Eugene Peterson, Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer Today, we invite you to a prayer for answering God with Psalm 30: 1 I…
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Friday, June 23
Friday, June 23 In his Commentary on the Psalter, John Calvin wrote, “The Psalms are an anatomy of all parts of the soul,” and that contained within them are “all the griefs, sorrows, fears, doubts, hopes, cares, perplexities, in short, all the distracting emotions with which the minds of [human beings] are wont to be…
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Thursday, June 22
Thursday, June 22 “The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that…
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Wednesday, June 21
Wednesday, June 21 “The Psalms are the best tools available for working the faith – one hundred and fifty carefully crafted prayers that deal with the great variety of operations that God carries on in us and attend to all the parts of our lives that are, in various times and in different ways, rebelling…
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Tuesday, June 20
Tuesday, June 20 “The more deeply we grow in the psalms, and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich our prayer will become.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together Today, we invite you to a prayer of confession with Psalm 51:1-10: 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to…
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Monday, June 19
Monday, June 19 Throughout the months of June and July, our daily devotions will be invitations to pray, perhaps in familiar ways and sometimes in new ways. This week we invite you to pray using the words and prayers of scripture itself, the psalms. Sometimes we struggle as we try to pray, believing that we…
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Sunday, June 18
Sunday, June 18 Child of love, our love’s expression, love’s creation, loved indeed! Fresh from God, refresh our spirits, into joy and laughter lead.1 “Children bring hope in the midst of all of life’s situations…When we see a child, full of joy and laughter, energy and optimism, hope surges within us, because a child is…
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Saturday, June 17
Saturday, June 17 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. Romans 8:14 “Children bring into our midst the very spirit of God…Children are a means of grace, for the spirit of God reveals itself to us through them.”1 Think about all the deep questions that children ask, usually right…
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Friday, June 16
Friday, June 16 You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11 I love to watch children enter the Narthex for worship. They are often uninhibited and demonstrate the true joy that comes with worshipping God. I have seen…
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Thursday, June 15
Thursday, June 15 Today is the last day of Unity’s VBS. I am confident that our children have grown in their faith this week. I am also confident that our children have taught our adults a thing or two. Adults tend to miss holy moments on a regular basis. However, children are good at pointing…