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MEDITATION:

Written by Arlene Stamper.

I like to start my mornings by reading scripture and inspirational stories on my iPhone.  After church service one day a few years ago, my friend Barbara Naas told me about The Bible in a Year. Since I had not ever read the Bible back to front…I thought it must be an impossible task to do!  I decided to get the App. Since then, I have read passages from the Old and New Testament, and Psalms every day.  I have learned so much and been brought closer to God thru his words and teachings. And Yes!  It is possible to read the Bible in one year!

For many years now, I also have taken my passion for making quilts and participated in a program called Prayers and Squares. This organization asks quilters to sew together a quilt top.  The top is “sandwiched” together with batting and backing. A heavy thread is used to take stitches thru the quilt layers, and the ends are left free to be tied with a square knot.  As each knot is tied, a silent prayer is said for someone in special need, who then receives the quilt.  Every time I make one of these Prayer Quilts I thank God he has given me this gift of quilting to help others. 

PRAYER:

This is a prayer by the apostle Paul from Ephesians 3:17-21.

I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, acording to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen!

MUSIC MEDITATION:

In Christ Alone. Anthem Lights. Written by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend in 2001.