Lovely, True, Good News

                        Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      Son of God, eternal Savior,      Source of life and truth and grace,      Word made flesh, whose birth among us      Honors all our human race,      You, our Head, who, throned in glory,      for your will ever plead:      Fill us with your love and pity,      Heal our wrongs and help our needs.      Come, O Christ, and reign among us,      King of Love and Prince of Peace,      Hush the storm of strife and passion;      Bid its cruel discords cease.      By your patient years of toiling,      By your silent hours of pain,      Quench our fevered thirst of pleasure,      Stem our selfish greed of gai...

                       Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      Lo, many shall come from the east and the west      And sit at the feast in the kingdom above      With Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the blest,      Invited by Jesus, amazed by God’s love.      But people who always resisted his grace,      No matter what good they may claim from the past      Shall then be condemned and cast out from his face       The last shall be first and the first shall be last!      O Lord, let us hear Christ’s compassionate call:      The door is so narrow; so few enter through.      That while there is time, we make haste, one and all,      And find our salvation forever in you.      God grant that we gather with all ...

                      Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!      O my soul, praise him, for he is your health and salvation!      Let all who hear now to his temple draw near,      Joining in glad adoration!      Praise to the Lord, who o’er all things is wondrously reigning     A nd, as on wings of an eagle, uplifting, sustaining.      Have you not seen All that is needful has been      Sent by his gracious ordaining?      Praise to the Lord, who has fearfully, wondrously made you,      Health has bestowed and, when heedlessly falling, has stayed you.      What need or grief Ever has failed of relief?      Wings of his mercy did shade you.        Pr...

                     Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      Have no fear, little flock; have no fear, little flock,      For the Father has chosen to give you the kingdom;      Have no fear, little flock!      Have good cheer, little flock; have good cheer, little flock,      For the Father will keep you in his love forever;      Have good cheer, little flock!      Praise the Lord high above; praise the Lord high above,      For he stoops down to heal you, uplift and restore you;      Praise the Lord high above!      Thankful hearts raise to God; thankful hearts raise to God,      For he stays close beside you, in all things works with you;      Thankful hearts raise to God!  Amen. Luke 12:32 –40 “Do not be afraid, littl...

                     Monday musical meditations on God's good news An opening prayer:      Lord, be my vision, supreme in my heart,      Bid every rival give way and depart:      You my best thought in the day or the night,      Waking or sleeping, your presence my light.      Lord, be my wisdom and be my true word,      I ever with you and you with me, Lord:      You my great Father and I your true child,      Once far away, but by grace reconciled.      Lord, be my breastplate, my sword for the fight:      Be my strong armor, for you are my might;      You are my shelter and you my high tower—      Raise me to heaven, O Power of my power.      I need no riches, nor earth’s empty praise:      You my inheritance through all my...