Dark and light
Download as PPTX, PDF1 like166 views
The document expresses a prayerful reflection seeking to embody positive qualities while minimizing negative traits, emphasizing love, offering comfort, and fostering peace. It includes references to various scriptures that highlight the significance of light overcoming darkness and living a life of purpose and awareness. Overall, it encourages a shift from habitual negativity towards spontaneous kindness and self-acceptance.
Dark and light
- 1. Dark and Light From the rising of the midwinter sun to its setting, scatter the darkness with the light of Your love, O Shining One. Make me short on mean thoughts, long on offering words of comfort. Make me short on being driven, long on paying attention. Make me short on focusing only on my own, long on looking beyond. Make me short on obsessive lists, long on spontaneous acts f kindness. Make me short on mindless activity, long on time to reflect. Make me short on tradition as habit, long on re- discovery and re-owning. Make me short on rushing and tiring, long on walking and wondering. Make me short on false festive jollity, long on stilling and rooted joy. Make me short on guilt, long on being merciful to myself. Make me short on being overwhelmed, long on peaceableness as I set forth this day. -Tess Ward
- 2. Write your short/long prayer
- 4. Dark/Light Scriputes Isa 9:2 The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them. Mat 4:16 "THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED." Joh 1:5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 2Co 4:6 For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 1Pe 2:9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; Joh 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life." Eph 5:8 for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light Mat 10:27 "What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.