When: Sunday, September 09, 2007 8:45 AM-9:45 AM.
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Dear Lord God, I believe! But when I weigh and measure myself I find I come up short. And even as I think I continue to know You more, or at least spend more time trying to get to know You. I continue to stumble and in doing so see how far short I have fallen. My prayer and hope is that through Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior I fall forward towards You. Today’s readings talk about Wisdom. As You know I have recently read the book after listening to the audio version several times about the Aramaic words spoken by Jesus. While I open my mind while I listen and read to such writings, and realize the abuses and horrors that have been served in Your name and in the name of Jesus Christ, I remain true to the belief that You are the One God, the I am, the Source of Source, the God of Abraham and Mohammed, the Father of Jesus Christ who is One with You and whom through the Holy Spirit resides in the heart of all human beings to remind us and help us find our way to You as spiritual beings. And while I seek to know You more, I may never really know You while in human form, while I want to feel closer this human body, may never let me. So I must continue to seek, to practice Your presence, always accepted that the mystery is just that and I cannot understanding, I just have to believe. So today I ask You in Jesus name and for the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world, Amen.
What do you possess if you possess not God?
— St. Augustine
13 For what man can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the Lord wills? 14 For the reasoning of mortals is worthless, and our designs are likely to fail, 15 for a perishable body weighs down the soul, and this earthy tent burdens the thoughtful mind. 16 We can hardly guess at what is on earth, and what is at hand we find with labor; but who has traced out what is in the heavens? 17 Who has learned thy counsel, unless thou hast given wisdom and sent thy holy Spirit from on high? 18 And thus the paths of those on earth were set right, and men were taught what pleases thee, and were saved by wisdom."
3 Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!" 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. 5 Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning: 6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. 12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on thy servants! 14 Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work be manifest to thy servants, and thy glorious power to their children. 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
9 yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you — I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus — 10 I appeal to you for my child, Ones’imus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment. 12 I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. 13 I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel; 14 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. 15 Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever, 16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 17 So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26 "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, `This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace. 33 So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
One Walk 