Greetings from Austin Street

Blessed Sunday to you all!  All is well here at 811.

Dear Lord, thank you for Sundays and times of worship. Thank you for sacred spaces filled with your Presence in the word being preached, the hearts and souls lifted in prayer, the music of praise played and voiced and a table shared with those I love.  Thank you that we are not strangers when I come to you in prayer. Help me to listen more when I pray so that I may hear your word in me. Teach me to become a vessel of healing to the beloved who know you and lead me to those who need to know of your healing grace. I love you Lord. In Jesus’ name, amen.

We have been given 5 senses.  Most of us can hear very well, but how well to we listen?  We have been given the sense of hearing, but listening is an art that requires us to hear what is being said and a choice to comprehend and act on what we have heard.  Moses experienced God through prayer meeting God face to face in the burning bush.  Moses prayed, God spoke to Moses and Moses listened.  When we pray we speak to God and when we are quiet and listen for God to speak to us we are living in relationship to God. Having a relationship with God means that there are no strangers in the prayer  room.  “With God as our friend in prayer we are never too hurt to look back and are never too scared to look ahead.”  We can look inside ourselves and celebrate who we are and we who are becoming.  In the quiet intimacy of the prayer room as can open ourselves to God’s loving presence and invite God in.  When we go to God in prayer we are in the presence of One we know and who knows us. 

“The LORD spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks with his friend.”

Exodus 33: 11

Take joy in the journey praying to God as you would have conversation with a friend.  Wear comfortable shoes, get some sleep and think pink!  Love you all, Bruce and Gaylene