I am posting this on the main blog as well as the prayer blog…..

St. Paul’s Cycle of Prayer: Tuesday – Seekers and other Young Adults, those in our community who are unchurched, and especially Family Promise and CROS ministries

Early in the morning I leave for General Convention in Salt Lake City. This is my 4th time to be part of the Mississippi deputation and each time has been a great honor. As a member of the Task Force on Marriage, I will be very busy behind the scenes working with the legislative committee on marriage and the other task force members as well. I hope to see many old friends and make new ones!

I will be blogging on my Main Blog (what a creative name!) from GC. This morning, as I was reading Morning Prayer, I thought I would put a note on the Prayer Blog that I won’t be updating it as often because of time constraints at GC. Which led me to think I probably won’t have time to say MP or EP while gone. Which then led me to say – are you stupid? GC is so intense, there is so much to do and so much to consider and so much to take in and so many places to be and often tense conversations and weighty matters to debate and in all that madness, the worst thing I could do is shirk a spiritual discipline because I don’t have time for it while at a church gathering!

Of course we pray every day at legislative sessions, committee meetings and the like. We share Eucharist together each day, worship at GC is really wonderful. But this discipline of daily prayer, solitary daily prayer but with the understanding that I am hoping to share something from that practice on the prayer blog, is just the foundation I need each day at GC. I hope you are praying with me!

I was struck by the so familiar words this morning from the Venite:

Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *
Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!

I hope all of us attending GC will remember these words – and that we humble ourselves and bow down before the Lord, remembering we are the sheep of his hand and that today, each day, we will hearken to God’s voice. Will you pray that with me?

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