Father,

It is evident that Your miracles are at work in our world. It is the transformation of things by a hand that is unseen through a wind that blows where it chooses. We are born of the spirit, not just flesh. You connected Heaven to Earth when you sent Your Son here to occupy our world. Your love for us goes far beyond mere kindness. You sent the most precious thing to you, Your Son, here to embody our humanness and bless us with his Spirit. To give us guidance to sort through and to teach us when it is time to take a stand and when it is time to turn the other cheek. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

The seeds of his presence here have flourished into the miracle of our world being lifted out of darkness, so that eternal life may be made manifest right now. We have been transformed into eternal beings and that gives us very good reason to see the glass as half full. Bless us with the perspective that is fertile and provides his work the support and nourishment for his miracles to keep going and growing. “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” (John 3:17)

When it snows, our world is transformed into a magical wonderland. When it rains, all the plants seem to sing with joy. The sun rises with sweet promise of a gifted new day. When we take Your Hand, Father, and choose to see the gifts of creation with gladness, we are alive with everything that flows with the wind of the Spirit, and eternal. “The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8) So it is with Your miracles at work, and so it is for us to be born of Spirit as Your Children, because He lives.

Father,

The Light is only getting brighter and we are all your lanterns and we are all burning brighter. It’s only going to get brighter from here, not darker. That makes the dark very uncomfortable. But it is the time for the dark to recede and for the love that human beings are, to rise up to the surface. We are made of God’s Love as evidenced by our great capacity for love and compassion, by our ability to overcome our fears and live from our hearts with the most intricate qualities of creativity that stir the soul. “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.” (Psalm 100:4)

And as The Light rises, we will continue to roll up our sleeves and work together toward a brighter future, overcoming obstacles and continuing to better ourselves, because we know now that we’re not going to let the dark hold us back any longer. We will strive forward together, shoulder to shoulder, with your blessing Father. “These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.” (Psalm 42:4)

Bless us Father and keep us in your Light as we fill our hearts with joy and praise. “Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him in song.” (Psalm 95:2)

In humble gratitude,

In Divine service,

Amen.

Father,

We greet this day in gratitude for the gift of life. Sometimes we get so caught up in surviving that we forget to thank you for the gift of being here and for the experience of life right now. To remember that life is a gift given by you, and that we can change things through our choices. It all looks differently when we remember that we are here to wake up and remember what it is like to be alive. Help us Father to reach a place in our life where we can truly live again. Where we appreciate the little moments again as precious blessings. Help us to feel fully alive again, and being fully aware of you as we go about our day to day moments. “Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.” (Romans 6:13)

Help us rise up so we can experience each moment as a truly living being. Lift us out of our concerns and show us how to fully engage with our world- as if we were fireflies in a jar with the lid off, and we just need to look up and fly out. Help us be able to see the openings so that we regard life not as happening to us, but to see it as, we are happening to life. We are your Children of Light and we shine outward into the darkness. “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:3-5)

In humble service and in gratitude for this day,

In Jesus’ holy name,

Amen

Father,

We come to you this morning in humble devotion. We come to you as your empowered Children of Light. We feel a bit of new freedom today, to be newly inspired, to make more of today raising to greater heights than before. Our precious time of connecting with you becomes spontaneous and lively. We become lighter in our daily life as we begin to live in a fully connected way to everything holy that ever existed. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.” (Ephesians 1:3) We begin to act in even more inspired ways that become effortless. We dare to live life more fully and raise the bar even higher.

We rise up and stretch outward, touching the light from the farthest star. Our Soul sings with the timeless timbre of a love so pure. Our words spark the poet’s prose and our hands create expressions of exquisite beauty. We are unleashed as your Children of Light and we sing your praise for it. “Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.” (Psalm 103:1)

Bless us today as we light up the darkest night. Give us strength, knowledge, wisdom and courage. Be our rock and our fortress. Lift us up even higher.

Let it be so,

In Jesus’ name we pray,

Amen.

We greet this day, Father. A day full of promise and vigor. A day of finding our selves again. In all of the chaos, all of the sadness and strife, you are a bright light on our horizon. May the holy spirit come into to us and touch our Soul. We were lost, but now we’re found, we were blind but now we see. It’s a time of reclaiming the best part of the human condition. Your son, Jesus came to walk the Earth and experience what we’ve been going through. His holy spirit, the Spirit of Love, brings compassion into focus. Old systems are crumbling to make way for compassionate action. We welcome the return of a pure, clear love. For that diamond clear unconditional love to emerge out of all the dark dross surfacing in the light and spilling off for all.

It is the rise of the Soul of Humanity, finding itself again, and pulling itself together, Father. May we lend a compassionate hand to those in need. That quality of which we’ve always been, but forgot we were, may it activate from within every Soul on the planet, and rise to a level of deafening impact. May we become an army of compassion, stirring the Souls who are starving for a kind word, a warm gesture, one that ignites a remembrance of who we really are, as a humanity and as a soul family.

Bless us this day, Father. Bless us with the ability to know what to do and how to do it. May we wash away all the sadness and sorrow. May we heal the pain and traumas. May we quench the worry and angst. May we really see one another and know exactly what to do to lift one’s Soul as only human beings, your Children of Light, can do.

In humble gratitude,

Let it be so,

Amen.

Father,

We come to you today in humble prayer in the spirit of unconditional love. To pray for our brothers and sisters during this time of change. Though the road may be difficult, we summon the faith to see it through. Though we may grow weary, you give us the ability to find our inner endless supply of strength. May we always have the ability to discern the messages of failure coming at us, and be able to disregard disempowering fearful thoughts, raising to thoughts of love and productive joy.

Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

(Psalm 139:23-24)

Allow us to cleanse and clear all that which holds us back from stepping forward into Your Light. We call upon the teachings of our brother, Jesus, to remind us how to shine our inner light outward in creative new ways. To show kindness to those who may be struggling and to lift eachother up whenever possible. “The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.” (Psalm 28:7)

Bless us with patience and tolerance today, Father. May we find an endless supply of compassion and understanding for our family and our brothers and sisters as we go about our work. May we become better equipped to lend the words that inspire to greatness and the actions that serve as good examples. It is the unconditional love of You that allows us to serve you as good neighbors to others.

In Christ’s name,

Amen.