Rev. Michelle Manuel Center yourself on today's reflection by lighting a candle and reciting this breath prayer: Inhale - Listen, Lord, in your mercy Exhale - not to our words but to our hearts. Psalm 1:6-12 You desire truth in the inward being;      therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.  7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;      wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.  8 Let me hear joy and gladness;      let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.  9 Hide your face from my sins,      and blot out all my iniquities. 10 [...]

Charity Autry, Member since 2008, Families in Faith Sunday School Leader, Starting Point Leader, VBS Chair (Children’s Ministry Council) Center yourself on today's reflection by lighting a candle and reciting this breath prayer: Inhale - Overwhelm us with your love Exhale - which casts out every fear. Ephesians 4:31-32 (New International Version) 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Reflection: Forgiveness is one of the easiest and hardest things to [...]

Vicki Keiser, Stephen’s Ministry and Church Council Center yourself on today's reflection by lighting a candle and reciting this breath prayer: Inhale - I will call upon God Exhale - and the Lord will deliver me. 2 Corinthians 7:8-10 8 For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. 9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you [...]

Becky Kidd, Member since 1979 Center yourself on today's reflection by lighting a candle and reciting this breath prayer: Inhale - Be not far from me, O Lord Exhale - for you are my strength and my help. James 5:16 (NIV) Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.  Reflection: During Lent, we are invited to give great thought to our sins and confess our sins. I went on a Walk to Emmaus in 1993. It was such a [...]

Lavonne Baker Center yourself on today's reflection by lighting a candle and reciting this breath prayer: Inhale - Free us, Lord, from the chains of death Exhale - that we might work for love and life. Luke 22:61-62. The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter.  Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him:  “Before the rooster crows today you will disown me three times.”  And he went outside and wept bitterly. Reflection: This is a familiar and cringeworthy passage. We may have thought, “I wouldn’t do that, certainly not three times! Gosh Peter what’s the [...]

Rev. David Horton Center yourself on today's reflection by lighting a candle and reciting this breath prayer: Inhale - May I sense you every moment Exhale - and make my whole life a prayer. Matthew 6:1-4 1‘Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 ‘So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have [...]

Steve Lufburrow, Long time St. Luke’s UMC church member Center yourself on today's reflection by lighting a candle and reciting this breath prayer: Inhale - Unite us in justice, Lord Exhale - that all might praise your name together. Luke 6:37 (NIV) “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”  Reflection: We all have situations in our lives where others give you stress and your patience may wear thin. Sometimes the pressure can consume us and unfortunately when that happens, the situation is [...]

Pat Deckert, Good Will Class, PM Pals, Docent Center yourself on today's reflection by lighting a candle and reciting this breath prayer: Inhale - Be not far from me, O Lord Exhale - for you are my strength and my help. Luke 24:46-48 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.  Acts 2:38 (New King James Version) 38 Then Peter said [...]