Micah 6:1-4;6-8; Psalm 150; Matthew 12:38-42

we seek
no sign
only
to do
the right
love goodness
and walk
humbly
with our God

What do you seek?

Genesis 18:1=10; Psalm 15:2-5; Col 1:24-28; Luke 10:38-42

mystery
of Christ
we want
to entertain you
with
our hospitality
and good works
unable
to hear
your words
in our doing
we become
lost
to the one thing
required
to listen
at your feet
and hear
All
as the love
of God
that fills us
with new life
within
then justice
springs forth
and we are
completed
in you
even in our suffering
there is joy
as all of
our works
are from you
Truth
in our heart
we harm
nor use
another
we turn
from evil
and live
only in your Presence

Do you become lost in your “doing”?
Do you enter the stillness at the feet of Christ?
Do you become His word before you act?

Isaiah 26:7-9,12,16-19; Psalm 102:13-14 and 15, 16-18,19-21, Matthew 11:28-30

looking down
from a holy height
our suffering
and groanings
are heard
and a voice
speaks
into our heart
come to me
all who labor
and are burdened
and I will give
you rest

Do you hear the voice and follow?

Isaiah 10:5-7,13-16; Psalm 94:5-6,10,14-15; Matthew 11:15-27

setting
ourselves
in rightful
trust
we see God
with a child-like
wonder
our hearts
return to
the goodness
that is
the mind
God

Do you see with child-like wonder?

Isaiah 7:1-9: Psalm 48:2-8; Matthew 11:20-24

standing
greater
than all
of our deeds
our power
or kings
is the one
who owns
our breath
and judges
where we stand
firm in our faith
or not
reaping
what we have sown
exalted
or torn down
we tremble
in our choices
for life
or death

Do you tremble in your choices?

Isaiah 1:10-17; Psalm 50: 8-9,16-17,21 and 23; Matthe 10:34-11:1

God’s love
above all
our guide
no family
festival
or ceremony
only the justice
of His love
caring
compassion
giving
and forgiving
of one another
a sacrifice
of praise

What is the justice of God’s love?

Dt. 30:1-14; Psalm 69:14-37; Colossians 1:15-20; Luke 10: 25-37

before all else
beyond all else
within all
there is Christ
image of
the invisible God
we are in awe
the thought
the reality
of Him
makes us soar
we see
from mountaintops
all that is
and our hearts
are brought
to love
His law
written within
we love
with all our heart
and soul
and strength
and mind
alive
within us
we proclaim
from our lips
we travel roads
with this love
to the need
of life
to our neighbor
who is all

Do you experience Christ who is before, beyond and within all?
Do you take His law of love into your heart?
Do you take this love to your neighbor?

Isaiah 6:1-8; Psalm 63:1-2,5; Matthew 10:24-33

fearing
what would
destroy
our soul
we peer
into the darkness
and find
the voice
of Light
whispering
of a healing
Presence
that touches
our lips
and we proclaim
the Truth
of a Love
without condition
existing
for its own
Goodness
indestructible
in Him

What Light do you find in the darkness?
What Truth?

Hosea 14:2-10; Psalm 51:3-4,8-9,12-14,17; Matthew 10:16-23

persevering
to the end
we are
saved
by our devotion
to mercy
and love
a forgiveness
that grows us
more humane
in our reaching
sustaining us
through
a willing Spirit
turning us
to the purifying
Light
of God’s love

To what are you devoted?
Are you sustained by the Holy Spirit?

Hosea 11:1-9; Psalm 80:2-3,15-16; Matthew 10:7-15

freely
we give
what has been
given
curing
cleansing
healing
even as
the one who
receives
does not know
the healer
has come
taking care
of the child
the vine
that was planted
knowing
the heaven
that is here

Do you know the heaven that is here?