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Morning Offering given
Village peaceful
Coffee…pod
St Valentine is recognized and admired for his expression of the truest love: that of giving one’s life for the Lord. Father, help me to love you, the Lord my God, with all my strength and to love others as I love myself.
Meditations for Each Day, pg. 64, The Early Hours of the Day
Scripture Readings for Day 14
•The Love of God• Deuteronomy 7:9 i Know, then, that the LORD, your God, is God: the faithful God who keeps covenant mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his commandments,j
•Names of God• Jehovah Shalom/The Lord is Peace• Judges 6:22-24 * Gideon, now aware that it had been the messenger of the LORD, said, “Alas, Lord GOD, that I have seen the messenger of the LORD face to face!”h 23 The LORD answered him: You are safe. Do not fear. You shall not die. 24 So Gideon built there an altar to the LORD and called it Yahweh-shalom.* i To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
•Love• John 15:12-13 * No one has greater love than this,j to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Crazy dream last night… at a religious gathering, all were asked to share their story. Not sure that’s something I want to get into right now. It wasn’t done so that one would blurt things out, but was to be done from the perspective of how it brought you closer to God or further from him. Interesting concept. Sort of in AA fashion. While waiting yesterday, I also ran across 1 Timothy 5:3-16…Rules for Widows. The article went on to discuss The Daily Resolve: A Field Manuel for the Matriarch by Margaret Lee, which is both a book and a website. Looking into this more. I need to find out more before I do/don’t do anything.
Know you are prayed for.
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