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Hello Reader!

Hello beloved one.

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Announcements:

*June 8th Children Ministry Luncheon...have you been interested in helping out at church? Please come to a fun-filled luncheon immediately after church this Sunday. Katrina will share a few thoughts and we'll eat delicious food. If you can attend, please RSVP here.

*Summer Planning: This summer, we'd like to have some whole church fun times. Did you Northern Colorado brims with neat activities, live music, and opportunities to gather and let the kids run free? Commonplace would like to descend upon the following events, so please mark your calendars:

>>>June 25th, CSU Lagoon Concert Series ("That Eighties Band")

>>>July 15th, City Park Food Truck Rally

>>>August 7th, Windsor Lake Concert Series ("Ivory")

*Centering Prayer...summer could be just the perfect time to set a new rhythm around prayer. Begin your week with us at the building at 8:30 a.m. on Mondays for a short silent prayer time.

*Please drop by Office Hours (i.e. casual hangout time) on Thursday morning anytime between 10 to 12 at The Neighbor (144 S Mason)!

Job and Nicholas of Flue

We usually follow the Revised Common Lectionary. Click on the link if you want to see what we'll be exploring in the weeks to come.

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I N V O C A T I O N

Open our hearts to your power moving

around us and between us and within us,

until your glory is revealed in our love of both friend and enemy,

in communities transformed by justice and compassion,

and in the healing of all that is broken.

Amen.

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S O N G S

New Every Morning The Porter's Gate PREVIEW   ​

Future / Past John Mark McMillan PREVIEW   ​

See You Greg Sanders PREVIEW   ​

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S C R I P T U R E & R E A D I N G S

Job 42:10

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.

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T A K E A W A Y S & Q U E S T I O N S

*We considered a prayer from the 15th century Swiss contemplative mystic, Nicholas of Flüe:

My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you.

My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you.

My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you.

*What does this prayer feel like in your mind…heart…life?

*What do I want God to “take” from me?

*What do I want God to “give” to me?

*Does it feel extreme? Would God ask us to give up our dreams, our most treasured relationships? Values? Pleasures?

*I think this is more about our relationship to everything! Everything we want. Everything we need. Sometimes, our attachment to the outcome may become unhealthy or obsessive. Let’s examine that. Where am I gripping, clinging, too attached to my desired outcome?

*We might think we know what needs to be taken from us and what needs to be given to us.

*But what if it’s everything? Take everything from me and return everything to me…surrender and wisdom.

*Oh Lord, take everything I want and need and love. Show me where my attachments are unhealthy that all may return to me in this cycle of surrender and newness and wisdom.

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A R T W O R K

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B E N E D I C T I O N

You are God’s Child

Gifted with dreams and visions.

Upon you rests the grace of God like flames of fire.

Love and serve the Lord in the wildness of your being.

Practice Resurrection.

And may the deep peace of Christ be with you,

The strong arms of God sustain you,

And the glory of the Holy Spirit shine upon your face.

Amen.

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Resource: A Collection of Prayers Sometimes it can be really nice to rely on the words of others when we pray. Just as the prayer from Nicholas of Flue can expand our experience of God, other prayers can do that as well. This week, try praying through some prayers that are new to you. See what comes to the surface. click here to browse this extensive collection of fair-use prayers

Practice: Holding Prayer Requests “He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding in his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands, all those people who were in stress or grief” -Edith Pargeter On Sunday, we shared some prayer requests. Revisit those concerns shared and add some more to the list. Then, use this Pargeter quote as inspiration...make room for these requests in your heart, holding them gently before the Lord.

Grace and Peace,

Katrina

&

Darren

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