In Love with the Beloved

Wednesday’s Reflection

DESMOND TUTU wrote, “Our relationship with God is a love affair and ultimately the greatest joy is just to be with the Beloved, to drink in the beauty of the Beloved in a silence that will become ever more wordless and imageless —the silence of just being together.”

- Larry James Peacock
Openings

From Openings: A Daybook of Saints, Psalms, and Prayer by Larry James Peacock. Copyright © 2003 by Larry James Peacock. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.

Today’s Question

Today remember your breath prayer [see Daily Reflection for May 15] and use your prayer to still [your] mind and open you to the silence of communing with the Beloved. Share your reflections.

Today’s Scripture Reading

Acts 7:55-60

This Week: pray for for church committees, conferences, councils. Add your prayer to the Prayer Wall.
Tips for Your Spirit:
Praying with Eyes Open. Many of us were taught to close our eyes when we pray. Praying with icons is an ancient prayer practice that involves keeping our eyes wide open, taking into our heart what the image visually communicates. Try praying with icons.
Saints, Inc.:
This week we remember Anslem (May 21).
Lectionary Readings:

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