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Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything other than God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Psalm 74 (NRSV) O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? Remember […]

Focus Breathe in clear thoughts of peace and reflection as you prepare to hear God speak to you through the scripture and the writer. Put aside all the things the world says you have to accomplish today and use this time to rest in God’s presence. Read Luke 8:4-15 (NRSV) When a great crowd gathered […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read 1 Corinthians 14:20-25 (NRSV) Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults. In the law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Ezekiel 47:1-12 (NRSV) Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple; there, water was flowing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple […]