FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ LIVING PRAYER ~ 29 January 2023

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

LIVING PRAYER

Brother Lawrence was a monk who lived almost 300 years ago and worked in the galley of his monastery. He wrote a book, The Practice of the Presence of God, which today is considered a classic in the area of Christian devotion. Brother Lawrence spent much of his time in the monastery scullery scrubbing pots and pans. He also had a collateral duty as the monastery cobbler. In these jobs, he said, he learned to glorify God in simple tasks and to pray with his hands.

By bringing to each small job the best of his ability, he developed the practice of living prayer. Whether he was bustling around the galley, repairing shoes or kneeling in prayer, he learned to grow spiritually as well as mentally and to cultivate a never-ending, ever-deepening sense of God's presence.

Each day you do hundreds of small tasks. Perhaps you feel at times unrecognized or unnoticed, or that your job is insignificant in the great scope of things. The fact is it doesn't matter what you do or what position you hold. What really matters is the spirit in which you work, and how you approach your work.

Brother Lawrence teaches us an important and very wise lesson: Even the simplest tasks, when done to the best of your ability, are important in God's eyes. Whenever you bring to any job the best of yourself, your fullest mind, an honest heart, and a striving for excellence, then your work, no matter what you do, becomes like a living prayer to God.

CAPT Jane F. Vieira, CHC, USN

 

[E.G.C.]

Well, right now the thinking is it will be light freezing rain. One of the models, the ECMWF which some of the TV weather guys and gals love so much wants to forecast amounts over.25 in some places. That would cause power outages and That's not what we want here.

Back in 2010 we have a really bad ice storm about this time and our area was without power for a day and a half. We had to figure out how to run the burners on the oven to cook back then.

We'll see what happens.

[radu]

Ooooooh, I hope you don’t have an ice storm. Those are not fun at all. The last one here, in ‘98, left me without power for 5 days and many people waited 2 to 3 weeks for theirs to come back on.
It’s better to get snow. Even better to have no frozen stuff at all! I wish you luck!

[The Mayor]

You missed this response but it was very late but the weather here has been very cold and only a few inches of snow.

Hi Kathy and thank you for bearing with me.

68 Impala Custom 237 engine, 2 door, bucket seats, automatic on the floor, white leather interior, bucket seats.

Exterior will be Chevy Burgundy with white top.

Started body work and doing rust removal by cutting it out and welding in new patch panels. Long ways to go.

[Kathy in Alaska]

But it sounds like you are having fun. I like the color!

Stay warm!!