Readings for Bread for you Journey Thursday September 24, 2009 selected and led by Kari Keyl
First Reading: Mark 9:38-41
38 (After Jesus’ disciples had a “failure” episode, where they could not heal someone, followed by Jesus’ prediction that bigtime suffering and death was coming soon, and they couldn’t begin to wrap their minds around it, here’s what happened next…) John said, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to force demons out of people. But he wasn't one of us, and we told him to stop." 39Jesus said to his disciples:
Don't stop him! No one who works miracles in my name will soon turn and say something bad about me. 40Anyone who isn't against us is for us. 41And anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name, just because you belong to me, will surely be rewarded.
(Contemporary English Version)
Prayer: O God, we know what it’s like when the pieces of our lives aren’t fitting together quite right, not like we expected at all. And sometimes it seems like we’re the only ones who are messed up, like others are finding the success we so want. Walk beside us, God. Open our eyes to see how we can make sense of the messes. Show us that we do have choices… and the first one is to choose you… even as you have already chosen us. In your name we pray… amen.
Second Reading: Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2011:4-6,%2010-16,%2024-29&version=MSG
Prayer: God, it’s great to find humor in the antics of your people of old! Of course, we do the same whining all the time, whether it’s out loud or just inside our angry, resentful selves. Listen to us, God, like you listened patiently to Moses. Give us clarity, that we might know how to share our burdens, with you and with others. Help us see the many, many ways that your Spirit is hyper-active all around us! And inside of us, too. In your name we pray… amen.
Reading: A Magnetic Thing
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
by Karl Menninger, as quoted by inward/outward at www.inwardoutward.org/?p=1155
Prayer: Listening One among us, draw us to you. Help us relax, unfold, and expand, in your empowering presence. Teach us to listen to others whose lives seem to be out of control, that we might be for them the friend that you are to us. In your name we pray… amen.
First Reading: Mark 9:38-41
38 (After Jesus’ disciples had a “failure” episode, where they could not heal someone, followed by Jesus’ prediction that bigtime suffering and death was coming soon, and they couldn’t begin to wrap their minds around it, here’s what happened next…) John said, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to force demons out of people. But he wasn't one of us, and we told him to stop." 39Jesus said to his disciples:
Don't stop him! No one who works miracles in my name will soon turn and say something bad about me. 40Anyone who isn't against us is for us. 41And anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name, just because you belong to me, will surely be rewarded.
(Contemporary English Version)
Prayer: O God, we know what it’s like when the pieces of our lives aren’t fitting together quite right, not like we expected at all. And sometimes it seems like we’re the only ones who are messed up, like others are finding the success we so want. Walk beside us, God. Open our eyes to see how we can make sense of the messes. Show us that we do have choices… and the first one is to choose you… even as you have already chosen us. In your name we pray… amen.
Second Reading: Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2011:4-6,%2010-16,%2024-29&version=MSG
Prayer: God, it’s great to find humor in the antics of your people of old! Of course, we do the same whining all the time, whether it’s out loud or just inside our angry, resentful selves. Listen to us, God, like you listened patiently to Moses. Give us clarity, that we might know how to share our burdens, with you and with others. Help us see the many, many ways that your Spirit is hyper-active all around us! And inside of us, too. In your name we pray… amen.
Reading: A Magnetic Thing
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
by Karl Menninger, as quoted by inward/outward at www.inwardoutward.org/?p=1155
Prayer: Listening One among us, draw us to you. Help us relax, unfold, and expand, in your empowering presence. Teach us to listen to others whose lives seem to be out of control, that we might be for them the friend that you are to us. In your name we pray… amen.
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