Contentment
O people, the Lord has told you what is good,
and this is what he requires of you:
to do what is right, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8 (NLT)
Dear friend,
It’s an interesting job I have, being Pastor John. Every week at the beginning
of worship I say how extraordinarily blessed I am and those aren’t empty words.
(To read more about my journey, read The Journey of John Richard White in
the Joys below, part of Steve Tuohig’s “Journeys” series. Next week, the plan
is to have someone else highlighted there.) I am really and truly blessed,
finding a deep level of contentment in my daily walk, even when the outer
circumstances of whatever day are not as I would choose them to be. Being
happy and being content are not the same. Check out the fun song above and
the brief talk by the prayer for more on that, and consider this week’s focus verse
from scripture too. “O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he
requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8 NLT)
I’m grateful for you as you read these words, experience our church worship
and listen to my podcast, and I’m grateful to those of you who give of your
time, your talent and your financial resources to our church family in proportion
to the time, the talent and the financial resources you have been given along
your life’s journey. As we approach our Annual Meeting this Sunday (information
below, a quorum is vital) I am deeply grateful for the service highlighted in this
year’s Annual Report (see the Joys below, and the Call to the Annual Meeting below,
for links to that). I am also grateful for all acts of service not noted there, as they
were done anonymously, and yet in many cases I am privileged to know about.
God bless you.
God bless you with the connections of community our church offers.
God bless you in the knowledge that your gifts and talents are appreciated
and valued. God bless you for choosing to do the challenging work of becoming
the highest expression of yourself. God bless you for choosing to walk
together in the hopes of our becoming the highest expression
of ourselves as we serve our local communities and the world.
For you, I pray the blessings of happiness and health, and yet, when these are not
available, I pray the blessing of contentment, despite your level of happiness, health or anything else.
Your life matters.
Our collective journey, seeking what is right, striving
to love mercy and walk humbly with our God matters.
Imagining our journeys connecting now and becoming something
more adds to my contentment and my peace. Thank you.
I’ll see you Sunday,
Pastor John
and this is what he requires of you:
to do what is right, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8 (NLT)
Dear friend,
It’s an interesting job I have, being Pastor John. Every week at the beginning
of worship I say how extraordinarily blessed I am and those aren’t empty words.
(To read more about my journey, read The Journey of John Richard White in
the Joys below, part of Steve Tuohig’s “Journeys” series. Next week, the plan
is to have someone else highlighted there.) I am really and truly blessed,
finding a deep level of contentment in my daily walk, even when the outer
circumstances of whatever day are not as I would choose them to be. Being
happy and being content are not the same. Check out the fun song above and
the brief talk by the prayer for more on that, and consider this week’s focus verse
from scripture too. “O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he
requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8 NLT)
I’m grateful for you as you read these words, experience our church worship
and listen to my podcast, and I’m grateful to those of you who give of your
time, your talent and your financial resources to our church family in proportion
to the time, the talent and the financial resources you have been given along
your life’s journey. As we approach our Annual Meeting this Sunday (information
below, a quorum is vital) I am deeply grateful for the service highlighted in this
year’s Annual Report (see the Joys below, and the Call to the Annual Meeting below,
for links to that). I am also grateful for all acts of service not noted there, as they
were done anonymously, and yet in many cases I am privileged to know about.
God bless you.
God bless you with the connections of community our church offers.
God bless you in the knowledge that your gifts and talents are appreciated
and valued. God bless you for choosing to do the challenging work of becoming
the highest expression of yourself. God bless you for choosing to walk
together in the hopes of our becoming the highest expression
of ourselves as we serve our local communities and the world.
For you, I pray the blessings of happiness and health, and yet, when these are not
available, I pray the blessing of contentment, despite your level of happiness, health or anything else.
Your life matters.
Our collective journey, seeking what is right, striving
to love mercy and walk humbly with our God matters.
Imagining our journeys connecting now and becoming something
more adds to my contentment and my peace. Thank you.
I’ll see you Sunday,
Pastor John
Would you pray with me?
God,
forgive us whenever we lose our humility.
Help us realize the joy of life you call us to,
is not found in the comparison of our journey with others.
The joy of life is found simply,
in knowing our journey is connected to all other journeys,
in knowing your love creates all journeys,
in knowing we need simply seek after what is right for others,
as we seek what is right for ourselves,
in knowing we need simply seek mercy for others,
as we seek mercy for ourselves,
in knowing we need simply walk humbly with others,
as we seek to walk humbly with you.
God, Jesus, Holy Spirit,
as we seek to become everything possible for us to become for others,
we pray for ourselves an inner peace and contentment.
Amen.
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God,
forgive us whenever we lose our humility.
Help us realize the joy of life you call us to,
is not found in the comparison of our journey with others.
The joy of life is found simply,
in knowing our journey is connected to all other journeys,
in knowing your love creates all journeys,
in knowing we need simply seek after what is right for others,
as we seek what is right for ourselves,
in knowing we need simply seek mercy for others,
as we seek mercy for ourselves,
in knowing we need simply walk humbly with others,
as we seek to walk humbly with you.
God, Jesus, Holy Spirit,
as we seek to become everything possible for us to become for others,
we pray for ourselves an inner peace and contentment.
Amen.
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