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Luke 4:5-8<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span> -inspired by a quote from Mother Teresa <\/i><\/p>\n Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span> ~ Katie Cummings, National Youth Conference Coordinator<\/p>\n Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year’s\u00a0Lenten Devotional\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>written by Duane Grady, pastor of Cedar Lake Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>in print and E-Book formats). Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Duane’s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em>his\u00a0<\/em>blog.<\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Luke 4:5-8 Prayer for the day: Almighty God, People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Help me to love them anyway. If I do good, people may accuse me of selfish motives. May I do good anyway. If I am successful, I may win false friends and true enemies. May I succeed anyway. The good I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[161,339,557,576,588,687,708,921,1159],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-build","tag-do-good","tag-help","tag-honest","tag-hurt","tag-lent","tag-love","tag-prayer","tag-transparent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlmighty God,
\nPeople are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Help me to love them anyway.
\nIf I do good, people may accuse me of selfish motives. May I do good anyway.
\nIf I am successful, I may win false friends and true enemies. May I succeed anyway.
\nThe good I do today may be forgotten tomorrow. May I do good anyway.
\nHonesty and transparency make me vulnerable. May I be honest and transparent anyway.
\nWhat I spend years building may be destroyed overnight. May I build anyway.
\nPeople who really want help may attack me if I help them. May I help them anyway.
\nIf I give the world the best I have, I may get hurt. May I give the world my best anyway.
\nGod willing \u2013 I seek to do your will.
\nAmen.<\/p>\n
\nIf we think of worship as anything that glorifies God, where can you worship God in our every day, ordinary life?<\/p>\n