Prayer for Today, Monday, March 14

O Most Holy One,

As we enter this first full week of Lent may our priorities be rearranged. May our desire be to love You with our whole hearts. It is easy to say the words and often we let them roll off our tongues without truly meaning what we say. Please forgive us, Dear Lord. May our words be embodied in our thoughts and actions. May our love for You be expressed in our devotion to Your church and our service to others. Move among us, Creator God, and stir us. May our hearts beat with love for You and compassion for all Your human family. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN.
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Inez Fisher was released from Bass Hospital. Please pray for Inez and Ron as she recovers at home.

We continue to pray for Connie Koegel, Madge Loomis, Margie Edwards and Richard Cook.

The Noon Prayer Service is today in the chapel.

Lenten Morning Prayers are continuing at 7:00 a.m. each morning in the chapel, Monday through Saturday.

The Lenten Devotional Books are available at the Welcome Center. The daily scriptures are the same ones I am printing in these emails.

The scripture for today is Deuteronomy 6:1-9:
Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the LORD your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, so that you and your children and your children’s children, may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life, and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well with you, and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Grace and peace,

John McLemore