Is It MONDAY AGAIN ALREADY???

Life has thrown me some curves over the past few months and I just decided to put a bag over my head...

and just hide from the world... But we all know that is not the way to handle it, so today I am picking myself up, dusting off the seat of my pants and Face the World.... So without further ado I present the Monday Stuff we all love.....

AWWWWW MONDAYS

Have a Happy and Blessed Week... God Loves you all and so do I...

ccg 7/09

Sunday July 19, 2009 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Lectionary Readings:
2 Samuel 7:1-14a
Psalm 89:20-37
Ephesians 2:11-22
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Today’s acclamation is from John’s Gospel: “My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me.”

This is a particularly poignant verse in light of today’s Gospel reading, where Jesus and the apostles try to escape for a few days of rest – a mini-retreat perhaps. But the sheep hear his voice and follow him, and they no sooner get to the place of retreat when they are surrounded by a crowd of people “like sheep without a shepherd” – and Jesus resumes teaching. I suspect most people in church ministry can identify with this passage – it’s very difficult to maintain the balance between being a good shepherd and maintaining dependent sheep.

How are you like a sheep in your life as a Christian?

How are you like a shepherd?

Have a Blessed Sunday....

What would you do?

What would you do it you ever arrived at the end of a rainbow?

For your Daily Reading.

Welcome to Upper Room Daily Reflections.

Here at Upper Room Ministries, we say, “Every Day — Find a Way.” We invite you, every day, to find a way to spend some time with God in reading, prayer, and meditation.

Here’s how to use Daily Reflections:
1. Read Daily Reflections online. Or subscribe to a feed (RSS or email) to have the reflection pushed to you every day.

2. Read each day’s quote from an Upper Room book or magazine. Spend some time thinking about these words and how they speak to you that day. As you spend time with the quote, it will deepen within you, bringing you new insights and connections.

3. Read the scripture reading each day. The scripture reading is from the week’s lectionary scriptures. (Read more about the lectionary.) Read the scripture meditatively and prayerfully. (Try doing Lectio Divina with both the scripture reading and the quote for the day.)

4. Close your meditation time with prayer. If you would like to, submit a prayer to the Upper Room Prayer Center or to the MethodX Prayer Wall.

5. Share your thoughts with others by commenting on that day’s reflection on the Daily Reflections web page.

I hope by sharing this, it will be a way of also bringing us all closer together...

Your Sister in Christ,
Colleen