• 9/13 – Mark 2:1-12 – When have I accompanied someone on life’s journey and found myself giddy with joy? Prayer starter: My God, you have placed so many different people in my life. Teach me ways to be supportive and to share the joy.
• 9/14 – Luke 6:27-36 – Who would I exclude from the mercy of God? Prayer starter: O God, help me to participate in your divine mercy. Give me the grace to forgive ___________ Teach me compassion for ___________
• 9/15 – Luke 7:36-50 – Who am I likely to judge only silently in my heart? Prayer starter: Come Holy Spirit, and open my heart to the ways of love.
• 9/16 – Luke 10:25-37 – Do I consider some people as “outside the law” and therefore, outside my duty as a Christian? Prayer starter: O God, I too can recite the law. In childhood I learned the golden rule. Teach me today your mercy and give me a compassionate heart.
• 9/17 – Luke 15:1-3,11-32 – When have I been the younger son; when have I been the older son? Prayer starter: My God, I’ve been working hard, but I want to end the day rejoicing because ______________
• 9/18 – Luke 16:19-31 – When has my heart been moved with compassion for the needy? Prayer starter: O God, sometimes it is not blindness but just plain laziness. Teach me your ways. Help me to establish some discipline in my life.
• 9/19 – Luke 18:9-14 – When have I been the Pharisee, when the tax collector? Prayer starter: O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.

The month of September will have us studying the message of the Scripture concerning God’s mercy and forgiveness. May they be ours!

• 9/6 – Jonah 1-4 (the whole book) – Do I carry any ethnic grudges? Prayer starter: O God, open wide my heart to your love, your compassion, and your mercy Help me to forgive and let go of grudges.
• 9/7 – 1 Kings 8:22-53 – Do I pray for situations around the world or just my own interests? Prayer starter: O God, you have been so generous to me, teach me to be generous too. Send your healing spirit.
• 9/8 – Nehemiah 9 – How does a prayer such as this affect my own worship? Prayer starter: O God, from the time I was a child I have found your mercy and goodness even in my faults and failures.
• 9/9 – Luke 1:39-56 – How do I identify with the poor and the marginalized? Prayer starter: Mary, mother of God, my mother, teach me as you taught your son, Jesus, and pray for me too.
• 9/10 – Matthew 6:6-15 and Luke 11:1-10 – Do I give my prayer life the attention it deserves? Prayer starter: Abba, Father, my list for daily bread seems so long. But today I ask you to draw me a little closer to you; that will change all my needs.
• 9/11 – Luke 5:1-10 – How do I meet Jesus Christ in my everyday working World? Prayer starter: O Jesus, I do love Peter because so often I can see myself. But do not depart from me. Come closer and teach me again today.
• 9/12 – Mark 10:46-52 – What voices do I hear that distract me from entering more deeply into the journey with the Lord? Prayer starter: Jesus, son of David, I did it again today. Those old habits are hard to break – have mercy on me too.

The month of September will have us studying the message of the Scripture concerning God’s mercy and forgiveness. May they be ours!

• 8/30 – Colossians 4:2-14 – ls this a time of struggle or surrender for me? Prayer starter: Grant me this day, O Holy Spirit, the gifts of patience and humility.
• 8/31 – Colossians 4:15-18 – Whose “chains” can I help loosen today? Prayer starter: Carry me, O source of Love, beyond my limitation by your grace.
• 9/1 – Genesis 1 – How often do prestige, power, or the opinion of others dictate my behavior? Prayer starter: O God, let me see your beauty in creation today. Show me your beauty in the people around me.
• 9/2 – Wisdom 11:17-12:1 – What events in my life or places in nature will bring me to a meditation on God’s love? Prayer starter: O God, lover of my soul, I am filled with awe and gratitude because once again I see. . .
• 9/3 – Psalm 107 – What events in my life help me to ponder the mercy of the Lord? Prayer starter: Teach my heart, O Lord. Help me to reflect and to understand your merciful love for me.
• 9/4 – Exodus 33:1-34:9 – In addition to “merciful, gracious, loyal, slow to anger, forgiving, and full of loving
  kindness” who is God for me? Prayer starter: Gracious and merciful God, life is so complex right now – so demanding.
• 9/5 – Psalm 103 – List three things for which you truly praise God. Are any of them difficulties? Prayer starter: O God, I know you have touched the heavens and the earth. You have touched my soul too and today I praise you for. . .

The month of September will have us studying the message of the Scripture concerning God’s mercy and forgiveness. May they be ours!

• 8/23 – Colossians 1:15-23 – What are the things that are causing me undue anxiety today? Prayer starter: Be the master of my life this day, Lord Jesus.
• 8/24 – Colossians 1:24-2:5 – Have I made the treasure that is Jesus Christ my own? Prayer starter: Lead me, O Holy Spirit, into the depths where I will meet the risen Christ.
• 8/25 – Colossians 2:6-15 – Am I trying to find meaning apart from Christ or within Christ? Prayer starter: Come, O Holy Spirit, and show me the glory of God within myself, my brothers and sisters, and creation.
• 8/26 – Colossians 2:16-23 – What opportunities for self denial and self-sacrifice did God give me today? Prayer starter: Teach me, Lord Jesus, to love for Love’s own sake.
• 8/27 – Colossians 3:1-11– What weeds have taken root lately in the garden of my soul that need to be rooted out? Prayer starter: Cleanse my soul this day, O Holy Spirit, from all that deprives me of the peace and joy God wishes to pour into my life.
• 8/28 – Colossians 3:12-17 – Which of the virtues Paul writes about do I see manifested in my life? Prayer starter: Come, Lord Jesus, and abide with me today.
• 8/29 – Colossians 3:18-4:1 – In what ways am I called to serve Christ today? Prayer starter: Open my heart, Lord, to the entire human family.