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‘Friday Fight Night’ every weekend ‘on the box’ might not be your thing, but retired semi professional boxer, Jimmy Roe, is using his fists to spread the word of God.

Jimmy joined Tony Miles live in the studio to explain …

http://doiop.com/JimmyRoe

When time is short and my ‘To Do’ list is long,
O Lord, rest my weary soul.
When the deadlines loom and my work is not finished,
O Lord, rest my weary soul.
When the technology is wonderful but sometimes lets me down,
O Lord, rest my weary soul.
When technology is reliable but I make mistakes,
O Lord, rest my weary soul.
When the objective is clear but the ethical issues are cloudy,
O Lord, rest my weary soul.
When those in authority give me instructions that challenge my integrity,
O Lord, rest my weary soul.
When political correctness is rife and Christian witness is hard,
O Lord, rest my weary soul.
When my church cares but fails to understand the broadcast industry,
O Lord, rest my weary soul.
When my work keeps me from my family and leisure,
O Lord, rest my weary soul.

Hear my prayer for peace, renewal and restoration.
Loving Lord, you said,
‘Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.’
Help me to respond to your invitation and receive your promise.
Then, may I trust you in the week ahead,
and know your life-giving Holy Spirit sustaining me
in the place you would have me be,
for your love’s sake. Amen.

Copyright: Rev. Anthony D Miles July 2006

Also found in ‘Maybe Today’ – the book published by CWR at written by Tony Miles

Can be purchased from www.tonymiles.com

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I stumbled across this prayer for Lent on the Methodist Church web site and thought you might find it helpful:

Forgive us Lord for our apathy,
for our lack of courage to speak out.
Forgive us when we walk past and don’t offer help.
Forgive us when we get it wrong.
We confess that we are afraid –
we don’t want to overcome our hidden doubts and prejudices
in order to be alongside those who are different from ourselves.
We ask that you would lead us into action:
give us strength to be a voice crying for justice and peace.
Help us to step into another person’s shoes,
or if they have no shoes
then not to be afraid to take off our own,

peel off our preconceptions and assumptions,
uncurl and spread out our toes, and
tread in their footprints.

May we be a liberating presence
and offer love, compassion and whatever is needed
to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God. 

Amen.

Source:
Take a look at the Methodist Church Web site

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Love is in the air … but remember these words:

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
He that minds a body and not a soul
has not the better part of that relationship,
and will consequently lack the noblest comfort of a married life.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love.
As love ought to bring them together,
so it is the best way to keep them well together.

A husband and wife that love one another
show their children that they should do so too.
Others visibly lose their authority in their families
by their contempt of one another,
and teach their children to be unnatural by their own examples.

Let not enjoyment lessen, but augment, affection;
it being the basest of passions to like when we have not,
what we slight when we possess.

Here it is we ought to search out our pleasure,
where the field is large and full of variety, and of an enduring nature;
sickness, poverty or disgrace being not able to shake it
because it is not under the moving influences of worldly contingencies.

Nothing can be more entire and without reserve;
nothing more zealous, affectionate and sincere;
nothing more contented than such a couple,
nor greater temporal felicity than to be one of them.

William Penn (1644-1718)

God to enfold me,
God to surround me,
God in my speaking,
God in my thinking.

God in my sleeping,
God in my waking,
God in my watching,
God in my hoping.

God in my life,
God in my lips,
God in my soul,
God in my heart.

God in my sufficing,
God in my slumber,
God in mine ever-living soul,
God in mine eternity.

Ancient celtic oral traditions – carmina gadelica

This poem was found on the body of an unknown soldier of the Confederate Army,
Killed at the battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War:

I asked for strength, that I might achieve,
He made me weak that I might learn
humbly to obey…
I asked for health, that I might do greater things,
I was given infirmity, that I might do
better things …
I asked for riches, that I might be happy,
I was given poverty, that I might be wise …
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men,
I was given weakness that I might feel
the need of God …
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life,
I was given life, that I may enjoy all things …
I got nothing that I asked for, but everything that I had hoped for,
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered,
I am among all men, most richly blessed.