God of Abundant Grace,
Help us release the bonds that hold us to the material, O Lord, and empower us to be open to Your love and grace. We are spiritual beings in human form, but often we are consumed by the things around us and our spirituality fades. During this Lenten season may our focus be on Your grace and love. May we be grounded in the faith and may our spiritual selves grow and prosper. This we pray in Jesus’ name, AMEN.
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Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Japan and all those affected by the earthquakes and resulting tsunami. Week of Compassion has and is continuing to respond. If you would like to help, put an extra check in the offering tomorrow and state in the memo line “For Earthquake Relief”. We will send this money to Week of Compassion on Monday.
Josephine Shellady was planning to be released yesterday afternoon. Connie Koegel, Margie Edwards, Madge Loomis, Richard Cook and Inez Fisher are all still hospitalized. Please pray for them.
Congratulations to Kari Evans and Nathan Isaacs on the birth of their son, Sean Carter Isaacs. He was born on March 8th. He weighed 9 lbs 4 ozs and was 21 ½ inches long. Kari was to be released from St. Mary’s Hospital yesterday afternoon.
Today was our fourth day of Lenten Morning Prayers at 7:00 a.m. in the chapel. They will resume on Monday. We have had from 9 to 11 people participate.
Lenten Devotional Booklets are available at the Welcome Center.
Tomorrow is Daylight Savings Time. Don’t forget to “spring forward”.
The NW Area Men are meeting next Thursday in Hennessey. Our bus will leave at 5:30 p.m. Men, please RSVP to Kandy Trojan by Tuesday noon.
Happy Birthday to Don Johnson. His birthday is tomorrow, March 13.
The scripture reading for today is Matthew 14:13-21:
Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. 14When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. 15When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” 16Jesus said to them, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” 17They replied, “We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish.” 18And he said, “Bring them here to me.” 19Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 20And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. 21And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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