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~Jason Silver

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I stumbled across another strategy by sheer accident.  When the stereo in my Toyota pick-up went on the blink, I found myself driving in silence.   I always figured that praying while driving amounted to giving God my “less-than-prime” time.  But my 20-minute commute is prime time.  My truck functions as a wonderful prayer closet.  Of course, I pray with my eyes open!  But as I drive, I can sing, cry out to God, and verbalize prayers in a wonderfully private setting.

Taking prayer walks also works – or taking prayer runs.  When I work out, riding my bike or running, sometimes, I pray as I sweat and grunt.  Other times I walk and pray along the river near my home.  It’s like walking with my wife – I do not think or speak words every moment of the walk.  I listen, I reflect, and my mind even wanders.  But I am constantly aware in whose presence I am.”   (Steven D. Mathewson)

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·  Why is it that when we talk to God we are said to be praying, and when God talks to us we’re said to be schizophrenic?  (Lily Tomlin)

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·   Prayer is not useful or practical but is a way of wasting time for God.  (Henri Nouwen)

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O God, our heavenly father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, look upon the families to whom we severally belong and so lavish us with grace and knowledge that we may serve Thee in our homes with love and humility.

For parents, who successfully raise children through teething, tantrums, braces and broken hearts and all the growing pains in between and in spite of it continue to love them without expectation or reward; for what children expect from grownups is not to be understood but only to be loved, even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness.

For grandparents who, after years of giving of themselves, are not content to live their lives in their children’s shadows but continue to grow and work independently and enthusiastically, for children have more need of models than of critics.

And on this Mother’s Day, O Lord, do not forget fathers.  May they always remember that the most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

O Lord, bless our homes and our loved ones and nurture in us the grace to serve you faithfully all the days of our life.

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· If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have somebody to thank for putting candy in their stocking, have I no one to thank for putting two feet in mine?  (G. K. Chesterton)

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O Lord, inspire us to be generous, generous without motive, to feed the hungry, to give drink to the thirsty, to clothe the naked, to care for the sick and infirm of all nations battered by poverty, political corruption, devastating weather conditions.  For you have promised a lasting inheritance: “whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me”.

As the congregation heads out into the community on May 7th, give each one of us a deeper understanding of and desire for serving our community in your name.

· If you do not pray, everything can disappoint you by going wrong.  If you do pray, everything can still go wrong, but not in a way that will disappoint you.  (Hubert van Zeller)

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