Pause for Prayer: TUESDAY 10/31

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It's Halloween!

 

Time to ponder the costumes we don the rest of the year

when we dress and outfit ourselves

    to be someone or something we're not

    - or to hide the persons we are...

Some of our costumes hang in our closets,

our day-to-day clothing, worn

    to make ourselves more attractive,

    to conceal or highlight the shape we're in, 

    to show how we're up with the times

    or to distance ourselves from trends and fads...

But you, Lord, care little 

    for style, couture, color and cut, 

    old or new, hot or not,

    designer label or off the rack...

 

You look instead to our hearts

and are pleased to find them naked:

    exposed to your gentle, healing touch,

    laid bare and open for you to swaddle

    in kindness, compassion and love...

As St. Paul reminds us:

    Clothe ourselves in heartfelt mercy:

        put on  the garments of gentleness,

            of humility and patience...

 

Strip me of all my pretense, Lord, 

    my desire to be who I'm not;

make me content to be and become

    the person you made in your image...

Clothe me in peace and outfit me, Lord,

    for the work that's mine to do;

robe my heart in a garment of love

    and garb me in grace and peace...

 

(This song and the text above come from Colossians 3:12-17)

 

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Because You Are Chosen by John Michael Talbot

Because you are chosen 

Called to be holy 

Because you are the Lord’s beloved  

You must clothe yourself with kindness  

With heartfelt mercy 

In the meekness of humility  

 

So bear you now with one another  

And forgive as the Lord’s forgiven you

Over all these virtues

Bind them all together

In the Love of our Lord Jesus

 

Over all these virtues

Bind them all together

In the Love of our Lord Jesus

Over all these virtues

Bind them all together

In the Love of our Lord Jesus

 

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