Prayer Tip:
This week in worship we will be focusing on graduating and other big transitions we make in life. We will be answering the question: What does Jesus have to say in these times of change?
Now I have a confession, I am super sappy when it comes to transitions in my own life. I am honestly just getting over leaving middle school…let alone high school, college or seminary school. I deeply miss the people in these communities and get ever so sentimental about the way God formed me while I was in them.
This being said, I also notice within myself this strong pull to always be moving on to the “next best thing.” So often I forget to be present to the day that I am actually living in and to the people who surround me. Whether you are graduating high school, college or even graduate school, I think we all have a bit of this tendency within us. Once we graduate, we set goals to get a job, find a partner, possibly have kids---I am already lining up my retirement.
So, this graduation season, I want to challenge all of us to slow down and go back to basics. I imagine you have heard the quote “all I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” I found a poem written by Robert Fulghum that I wanted to share with you all.
“Most of what I really need
To know about how to live
And what to do and how to be
I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top
Of the graduate school mountain,
But there in the sandpile at Sunday school.”
This quote challenged me to think: what did I learn as a kindergartener in Sunday School? Of course, Luke 10:27: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ In a very simple way, I think this is exactly what kids are often trying to teach us. Take a look at this adorable clip of the Kid President as he teaches us the “20 Things We Should Say More Often”.
This week, I challenge you to do one of the most difficult things: Practice being present where you are RIGHT NOW. Whenever you feel yourself anxious to get to the next thing. Stop, take five minutes and pray. Ask that God would help you feel content and give you peace.[Reverend Katherine Ebling-Frazier]
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Weekend Sermon Title: "A Commencement Address from the Lord’s Prayer"
Daily Scripture: Matthew 6:9 You, therefore, pray like this:
‘Our Father in heaven!
May your Name be kept holy.
10 May your Kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as in heaven.
11 Give us the food we need today.
12 Forgive us what we have done wrong,
as we too have forgiven those who have wronged us.
13 And do not lead us into hard testing,
but keep us safe from the Evil One.
[a]For kingship, power and glory are yours forever.
Amen.’[Footnotes:
Matthew 6:13 The latter half of verse 13 is not found in the oldest manuscripts.]
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