Even So (Live)

 Give us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray, as to deserve to be heard, to address thee with our Hearts, as with our lips. Thou art every where present, from Thee no secret can be hid. May the knowledge of this, teach us to fix our Thoughts on Thee, with Reverence and Devotion that we pray not in vain.

Look with Mercy on the Sins we have this day committed, and in Mercy make us feel them deeply, that our Repentance may be sincere, & our resolutions stedfast of endeavouring against the commission of such in future. Teach us to understand the sinfulness of our own Hearts, and bring to our knowledge every fault of Temper and every evil Habit in which we have indulged to the discomfort of our fellow-creatures, and the danger of our own Souls. May we now, and on each return of night, consider how the past day has been spent by us, what have been our prevailing Thoughts, Words, and Actions during it, and how far we can acquit ourselves of Evil. Have we thought irreverently of Thee, have we disobeyed thy commandments, have we neglected any known duty, or willingly given pain to any human being? Incline us to ask our Hearts these questions Oh! God, and save us from deceiving ourselves by Pride or Vanity.

Give us a thankful sense of the Blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by Discontent or Indifference.

Be gracious to our Necessities, and guard us, and all we love, from Evil this night. May the sick and afflicted, be now, and ever thy care); and heartily do we pray for the safety of all that travel by Land or by Sea, for the comfort & protection of the Orphan and Widow and that thy pity may be shewn upon all Captives and Prisoners.

Above all other blessings Oh! God, for ourselves, and our fellow-creatures, we implore Thee to quicken our sense of thy Mercy in the redemption of the World, of the Value of that Holy Religion in which we have been brought up, that we may not, by our own neglect, throw away the salvation thou hast given us, nor be Christians only in name.

-from a prayer written by Jane Austen

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Upon Your Heart

For love is strong as death.

Many waters cannot quench love,

Neither can the floods drown it.

Many waters cannot quench love,

Neither can the floods, neither can the floods,

drown it

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 O GOD,

We bless thee,

        our Creator, Preserver, Benefactor, Teacher,

  for opening to us the volume of nature

    where we may read and consider thy works.

Thou hast this day spread before us the fuller pages

    of revelation,

  and in them we see what thou wouldest

    have us do,

  what thou requirest of us,

  what thou hast done for us,

  what thou hast promised to us,

  what thou hast given us in Jesus.

We pray thee for a conscious experience

    of his salvation,

  in our deliverance from sin,

  in our bearing his image,

  in our enjoying his presence,

  in our being upheld by his free Spirit.

Let us not live uncertain of what we are,

  of where we are going.

Bear witness with our spirit that we are thy children;

And enable each one to say, ‘I know my Redeemer.’

-from 'The Valley of Vision', a collection of Puritan prayers

The day will be when I shall see Christ surrounded by His Holy Angels. I shall be brought into that blessed company, in which all will be pure, all bright. I come then to learn to endure the sight of the Holy One and His Servants; to nerve myself for a vision which is fearful before it is ecstatic, and which they only enjoy whom it does not consume.

-John Henry Cardinal Newman

Every valley shall be raised up,

    every mountain and hill made low;

    the rough ground shall become level,

    the rugged places a plain.

    And the glory of the Lord will be revealed,

    and all people will see it together.

Isaiah 40.4-5

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God came to us because he wanted to join us on the road, to listen to our story, and to help us realize that we are not walking in circles but moving toward the house of peace and joy. This is the great mystery of Christmas that continues to give us comfort and consolation: we are not alone on our journey. The God of love who gave us life sent his only Son to be with us at all times and in all places, so that we never have to feel lost in our struggles but always can trust that he walks with us.

The challenge is to let God be who he wants to be. A part of us clings to our aloneness and does not allow God to touch us where we are most in pain. Often we hide from him precisely those places in ourselves where we feel guilty, ashamed, confused, and lost. Thus we do not give him a chance to be with us where we feel most alone.

Christmas is the renewed invitation not to be afraid and to let him—whose love is greater than our own hearts and minds can comprehend—be our companion.

Henri Nouwen