week of 5/16/10

God, as we look back on 5 years...we are overwhelmed with gratitude, for the ways in which You have continued to show up, over and over again. You have accompanied us through the deepest and most treacherous of valleys and have danced with us on the mountaintops. You have listened to our shouts and whispers, our songs and laughs, our wails and silences. You have heard our prayers and loved them and us. From this deep sense of Your faithfulness, we bring to You more of our prayers--our hopes and dreams, our sorrows and failures... Hear us now as we pray:

mysterious and lovely god

it is like i am getting to know you all over again. I didn't think I would ever have to. it's scary & forgien territory. but your love, beauty, and grace in undeniable. at this point god, i'm not sure what to ask for or even quite sure how to approach you. help me to discover me, to discover you, to discover my sisters & brothers. and help me god to discover my call, my challenge, my place, and my privledge of living alonside, with, and for humanity. Amen.

Please pray for --------------, ---------------, -----------------, --------------, ----------------

sometimes it just hard

been a rough couple of months

I give thanks for BSM and the hope of God found here.

I pray for leaders who lead us into the city for Jesus' sake

Thanks for music offerings of BSM

thank you for your prayers

as I bind

as I release

as I search

as I heal

For Love

Praise God, I am alive, Amen!

Please help ------------ as she navigates the employment jungle

My heart is thankful--for making it thru another year of school, for the friends & family who have sustained me, for the rest of this past week.

Prayer 4 family, friend

Prayer of thanksgiving for a God who turns our mourning into Dancing

I need prayers for:

Sobriety

My cousin who just got married

Patience

A still mind that is able to listen to God.

pray for our dear friend to BSM, ------------ -----------. He has started a new life in Pittsburgh, seeking how to live faithfully. Pray for direction and new opportunities.

prayers for

guidance--help me grow into the person I need to be, with God's help

honesty--with myself and my loved ones, so I don't let anything swallow me up

community--reminders that I am a part of something, it's not all about me, it's about love & care for one another.

sanctuary--because we all need some

I WISH I DIDN'T FEEL SO PASSED OVER, OVER-LOOKED BY PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY CARE ABOUT ALL.

Help me to keep experiencing--and demonstrating--gratitude and to accept and follow your will for me.

God, please let this moment of anniversary be a time of my ascent, to let go of rejection & worthlessness & be centered in self-love & love for others.

for all dear friends, brothers and sisters all, struggling with addiction and slavery to anything less than the liberating power of GOD'S LOVE. please pray for the Spirit who frees, enlivens, transforms, recovers, and resurrects. for ----------------, --------------- --------------, ----------- -----------, the New Jerusalem Now community and anyone else dedicating themselves to loving in the service of God's children in recovery, please pray for continued favor, provision, wisdom, support, and every conceivable blessing. ty!

A prayer for -------------, that he finds happiness where ever he ends up

We go to Arch St PC
Please keep ---------- and ----------- ----------- in your prayers for houseing and jobs and also health, also --------- for her family & problems. God bless all of you!

Loving God thank you for leading me back to you through BSM. Lord I ask that you bless this community and help us to keep growing and doing your work! In Jesus Name I ask this. Amen.

O-me & my...

These Hips...

Says Yes.

& by the way Happy-Happy 5th Birthday...Ya'll just keep on keeping on.

Amen, Amen, Amen.

Prayer of THANKSGIVING for:

*my ---------- completing year 1 of college.

*a wonderful & safe trip to South Africa

Joy, peace, hope, family, love, finance, closer to Jesus, in Jesus Name amen

It's Wednesday and I'm home in VA missing you all terribly at BSM. You've become my family and I want to pray that everyone in this community is feeling peace and my love.

Until fall,

------------ <3

Jesus, You live and breathe and move in the midst of all of this--for that we are grateful. We ask for your continued presence when we doubt, when we face struggles and obstacles, when we experience all kinds of blessings. Help us to be present, in this moment of our individual lives and our life together as a community. Help us to believe that our past need not imprison us, and that our perceived future is not as important as the ways in which we choose to act or not act, love or not love, now. Thank You for Your presence, for Your infinite faithfulness, and for Your love that challenges us to grow and love and live Your abundant life. Amen.