BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 17, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Gracious One, as we begin our morning, may your praise be among the first words we speak. Your extending to us another day is a gift in itself, for within these hours ahead you will […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 16, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade These things I have spoken to you so that my joy may be full in you, and that your joy may be made full. John 15:11 Wellspring of Joy, sometimes pure joy wells up within us […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 15, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade From your heavenly chamber, O God, you visit us in the sailing beauty of the clouds, in the soft sound of the falling leaf, in the crispness of morning air, in the river’s rinsing current, in […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 14, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade O Great Seeker, we praise you for never abandoning your search for us. You surround us with wonders of creation while we are looking the other way. You see us laboring for that which does not […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 10, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Whoever drinks this water I shall give will never be thirsty again; the water I shall give will turn into a spring inside him, welling up to eternal life. John 4:14 Stream of Life, we remember the […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 9, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade We have learned, O Lord, that there are periods when aloneness must be honored, for we can always sense the urgency of our souls to catch up with our frenetic pace. It is only in apartness […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 8, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Hope of the World, summer is behind us, yet you still send blossom-scented winds across the lawn. Riots rage in the darkness, but morning still gives way to the long yellow fingers of the sun. Destruction […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 7, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as laboring for the Lord, not for human masters. Colossians 3:23 O God Who Gives Us Purpose, multitudes need quiet rest from their work and are […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 3, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord … plans to give you hope and a future Jeremiah 29:11 Hope of the World, you have called to us through the eons to […]
BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE Prayers for the Church Street Family September 2, 2020 Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade And let us know be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Gal. 6:9 Abiding God, we praise you for your enduring guidance. You sent Jesus, our Teacher […]