pray share chat 5/25/2022 focus on Grace

Focus of today's meeting is on Grace.

1.  Meditation

 https://youtu.be/pAEioF7FaWY

2.  Song

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0BVxAYGt2kc

3.  Narrative

Features several quotes from Richard Rohr on grace taken from this site

https://www.azquotes.com/author/18308-Richard_Rohr/tag/grace.

• It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

  Richard Rohr

  Water, Grace, Pool

   

• Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

  Richard Rohr

  Ocean, Moving, Thinking

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com 

    

• Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.

  Richard Rohr

  Moving, Grace, Half

    

• Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

  Richard Rohr

  Prayer, Heart, Grace And Mercy

  "Third Sunday of Advent: Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell". Fr. Richard Rohr's homily at the Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org. December 16, 2012. 

    

• Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.

  Richard Rohr
• 4.  Prayer
• https://connectusfund.org/25-powerful-prayers-for-grace
• Prayer for Daily Grace

  Loving Father, You have loved me when I was unlovable. I am so amazingly grateful that I know You and I can experience Your wonderful presence in my life. Give me this day Your grace in how I live my life today. Give me wisdom and gentleness in how I interact with others. Make me pure then peaceable and gentle. May I have a mind that is open to reason and shows mercy. In all of today’s tasks, grant me the wisdom and grace to be sincere and meek. Thank You that You pour out Your grace to me. Amen.

  Prayer of Thanks for Sufficient Grace

  God, my Father, as Jesus states to Paul in his time of need, so do I remind myself: Your grace is sufficient for me. Whether in wealth or poverty, hunger or feasting, I will, like the apostle, boast in my weaknesses. For it is my weaknesses, Lord, that make Your grace manifest even more so in my life. In my life thus far, I have been upheld by this grace You supply – thank You, O my Father. Praying in the name of Jesus Christ, I praise You forever. Amen.

  5.  Meditationhttps://youtu.be/pPrO2jlay40

  
  6.  Song
• https://youtu.be/fiyYoe678yI
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