Prayer and Bowling
Greetings from Japan,
Our devotional this morning was great. It was about prayer. The author of our reading for today was John Baillie. After reading his prayer, it made me reevaluate my own prayers in comparison to his thoughtfulness. Here is an excerpt from our reading today:
Eternal Father of my soul, let my first thought today be of You, let my first impulse be to worship You, let my first speech be Your name, let my first action be to kneel before you in prayer.
For Your perfect wisdom and perfect goodness:
For the love with which You love mankind:
For the great and mysterious opportunity of my life:
For the indwelling of Your Spirit in my heart:
For the sevenfold gifts of Your Spirit:
I praise and worship You, O Lord.
Yet let me not, when this morning prayer is said, think my worship ended and spend the day in forgetfulness of You, Rather from these moments of quietness let light go forth, and joy, and power, that will remain with me through all the hours of the day;
Keeping me chaste in thought:
Keeping me temperate and truthful in speech:
Keeping me faithful and diligent in my work:
Keeping me humble in my estimation of myself:
Keeping me honorable and generous in my dealings with others:
Keeping me loyal to every hallowed memory of the past:
Keeping me mindful of my eternal destiny as a child of Yours.
Through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.
John Baillie (in our excerpt) had a prayer for each day of the week which were each equally amazing and thoughtful. Our morning devotionals have helped me to see many areas in which I can improve in my walk to become more like Jesus. I am adding more thoughtful heartfelt prayer to the list.
Kristina and I had very light reading schedules today so after catching up on chores and project stuff, we went to the beach. I made a turtle out of sand, and Kristina made a frog. The frog was very life-like. You all would have been proud of her. We ate grilled cheese and leftovers for lunch, as well as left overs for dinner. We needed to get rid of a lot of things in the refrigerator. After everyone was through tonight, we cleaned and rearranged the church building and then went to Plabi-Bowl. It is the local bowling alley. We had a great time. Jake got a strike when a colored pin was in the center. They gave him some snacks for free for doing that. We all shared them, and they were very interesting. We said whoever got the best score got to pick the flavor they wanted first. I won, so I picked shrimp and mayonnaise, Jake got Teryaki, Kristina got corn potage, and Julie got Sarami (Salami). They were kind of like long funyuns, but with a whole lot of flavoring. Mine was actually very good, but I think I'm the only one who finished one.
We are getting up early in the morning to go to Nikko on our first off-day of the week. So I will stop here and go to bed.
Oya Sumi nasai and Ohio Gozaimas,
Jeff
Our devotional this morning was great. It was about prayer. The author of our reading for today was John Baillie. After reading his prayer, it made me reevaluate my own prayers in comparison to his thoughtfulness. Here is an excerpt from our reading today:
Eternal Father of my soul, let my first thought today be of You, let my first impulse be to worship You, let my first speech be Your name, let my first action be to kneel before you in prayer.
For Your perfect wisdom and perfect goodness:
For the love with which You love mankind:
For the great and mysterious opportunity of my life:
For the indwelling of Your Spirit in my heart:
For the sevenfold gifts of Your Spirit:
I praise and worship You, O Lord.
Yet let me not, when this morning prayer is said, think my worship ended and spend the day in forgetfulness of You, Rather from these moments of quietness let light go forth, and joy, and power, that will remain with me through all the hours of the day;
Keeping me chaste in thought:
Keeping me temperate and truthful in speech:
Keeping me faithful and diligent in my work:
Keeping me humble in my estimation of myself:
Keeping me honorable and generous in my dealings with others:
Keeping me loyal to every hallowed memory of the past:
Keeping me mindful of my eternal destiny as a child of Yours.
Through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.
John Baillie (in our excerpt) had a prayer for each day of the week which were each equally amazing and thoughtful. Our morning devotionals have helped me to see many areas in which I can improve in my walk to become more like Jesus. I am adding more thoughtful heartfelt prayer to the list.
Kristina and I had very light reading schedules today so after catching up on chores and project stuff, we went to the beach. I made a turtle out of sand, and Kristina made a frog. The frog was very life-like. You all would have been proud of her. We ate grilled cheese and leftovers for lunch, as well as left overs for dinner. We needed to get rid of a lot of things in the refrigerator. After everyone was through tonight, we cleaned and rearranged the church building and then went to Plabi-Bowl. It is the local bowling alley. We had a great time. Jake got a strike when a colored pin was in the center. They gave him some snacks for free for doing that. We all shared them, and they were very interesting. We said whoever got the best score got to pick the flavor they wanted first. I won, so I picked shrimp and mayonnaise, Jake got Teryaki, Kristina got corn potage, and Julie got Sarami (Salami). They were kind of like long funyuns, but with a whole lot of flavoring. Mine was actually very good, but I think I'm the only one who finished one.
We are getting up early in the morning to go to Nikko on our first off-day of the week. So I will stop here and go to bed.
Oya Sumi nasai and Ohio Gozaimas,
Jeff
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