BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family October 8, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. (Isaiah 55:8) God of Grand Imagination, how intricately you have created our universe! All things are aligned so perfectly, such […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family October 7, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Master of Life, the ground beneath us seems to be shifting these days and we strive to regain our footing. Just when we think everything is under control, we feel ourselves slipping again, inch by […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family October 6, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Beauty of Holiness, we are a tense people, eagerly answering the world’s cry for productivity. But you stop us in our tracks with the startling beauty you have sown around us. Lead us to look […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family October 5, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Morning Star, you speak to us through the fading leaves that float across the window pane, scuttling down to the cool earth, joining a thousand others. They collect much as our days, crumpled and lifeless, […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family October 1, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Truest Friend, you are always true to us, but we are ever having to say we are sorry. You have been faithful to us, but we confess we have been unfaithful to ourselves and to one […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 30, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Under leaden skies the rain patters lightly on the cedars, as softly as a cat moves into a room, licking away its residue of summer dust. The summer has brought its wonders but also fiery protests […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 29, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O God, we often search for you behind the clouds, beyond the bounds of the conventional, but what if you are right here, alive and well in the most obvious? Have we been so busy peering […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 28, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Heal me, hands of Jesus, and search out all my pain; Restore my hope, remove me fear, and bring me peace again. Holy Source of Life, we give you thanks for all the signs you offer, […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 24, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Giver of Gifts, you hold out a new day, all wrapped with ribbon sublime, trusting that we will open it with care, using its 1,440 minutes wisely and meaningfully. We thank you that you will […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 23, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in his excellent word! What more can he say that to you he hath said, to you who for refuge to Jesus […]
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