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I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. For dogs…
Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me; they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion. Lord, back into the prison today; will it be another day of surprise and attack by the forces of the Evil One? As we start another initiative…
Note from John: My apologies to you faithful readers that an error on my part caused Voices Together for Saturday, the Lord's Day and Monday the wrong meditation and then repeated twice. You can get what should have been sent at the website of the Fellowship of Ailbe. Yet you…
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads; "He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"…
May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame! It is not shame in the usual sense, Lord, but the shame and disappointment that comes form the realization that my disobedience has come between me and the sheer enjoyment of living fully in…
Psalm 22:3-5 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. (4) In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. (5) To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. Yet if I open my eyes and take…
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and…
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. (22) He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. (23) When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he…
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made…
Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching…
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of…
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. I do believe, Lord, that Your commandment to pray without ceasing is good and right but how do I get there? How does my life become one of constant communion with You? Today's readings in the Psalms: Morning:…
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the…
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, (2) and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. "unless I believed in vain." Lord, I…
Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power. Lord, Your strength is a strength above all others. It is complete, there is no chink in Your armor. It is vast, there is no place in all creation that it does not reach and display…