The Bible in Time...

Abimelech from  Guillaume Rouillé 's  Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum 2024 Read the Bible in a Year February 28, 2024 Readings for Today: Day 59 - Judges 9:1 - 12:15  Map of time of Judges Prayer: Loving God, dissolve the barriers of suspicion that divide us from one another. Fill us with your love that casts out fear. Clothe us in your light and grace, that we may be agents of hope and encouragement for those that despair and have lost their way. Help us each to find our own particular way in which to proclaim the good news of your saving love in our daily life and work. We pray for our government and for our leaders at every level of authority, that they may be strengthened to heal the structures that bruise your people. God, hear our prayers. Amen (All Saints Episcopal Church - Pasadena prayers - 27 Oct 2019 worship) Reflection:  We continue with the cycle of God saving the people. The people fall away from God and worship local deities. God lets the local warlords take over the

" Gideon thanks God for the Miracle of the Dew ", painting by  Maarten van Heemskerck  ( Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg ) 2024 Read the Bible in a Year February 27, 2024 Readings for Today: Judges 6:1-8:35 Day 58 - God saves the people! Illustrative overview of Judges Prayer: When your Son lived on the earth he gathered the children into his arms and rejoiced in the simplicity of their faith. Give us such faith, that we who are bowed down by doubts and fears we know, deep in our hearts, the truth of your love, and like the children be ready to accept the wonder and mystery of faith without seeking always to understand. Amen. Pat Robson, A Celtic Liturgy, Prayers of Intercession, page 78, © 2008, ISBN 978-0-281-06096-2  Reflection: The people lived in the land the God had given them and began to worship local gods (Baal) other than God. They did evil in God’s sight and by forgetting God, God handed them over to the rulers of Midian and the people of Israel under their do

Hope A Great Prayer God, Help me today  to shut up, to listen up, to open up, and to lighten up. You have a lot more to show and tell me  more than I have to show you and tell you. Please be patient with me. Allow me a glimpse, give me a hint  of what is really going on around me as I walk, watch, wonder, and work throughout this unfolding day. I now need            to worry a lot less, to  stop over-reaching, to be calmer and not insist I am special or right. The world does not revolve around me. I am not or will be anyone’s savior. I must look up and out than in. I must try harder to be wiser, nicer, less grouchy, and a more sensitive human being. Gracious God, let me pray my life, and live my prayers. Amen Morning Prayer - 2.20.24 by The Very Rev. Randy Hollerith Dean, Washington National Cathedral