RUNNING

Snippet

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just 

never give up.”  Dean Karnazes

Scripture

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of 

witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin 

that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the 

race marked out for us,  fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer  

and perfecter of faith.  Hebrews 12:1,2 NIV

Song

7eventh Time Down 

The One I'm Running To

http://youtu.be/e2BNVB_0cDI

Midnight
Staring at the bills and rubbing
Red eyes
Ain't adding up to nothing
but some hard times
He's feeling like a failure in life

Head down
Part of him is tempted just to
Skip town
But deep inside he knows enough to
cry out
God I'm tired of fighting this fight

I'm running low on faith
but I won't run away

Tonight I'm gonna fix my eyes
On the only Hope who satisfies my heart
You are the One I'm running to
Everything that's good and right and true
Jesus, I'm coming after who
You are, you are
the One I'm running to

Late Shift
She's working hard providing
For her three kids
She hasn't seen her husband cause
Their stretched thin
Nobody told her it would be this hard
There's no end in sight, but she says
No compromise

Tonight I'm gonna fix my eyes
On the only Hope who satisfies my heart
You are the One I'm running to
Everything that's good and right and true
Jesus, I'm coming after who
You are, you are
the One I'm running to

So much I don't understand
In the middle of this circumstance
But I know my life is in Your Hands

Tonight I'm gonna fix my eyes
On the only Hope who satisfies, my heart
You are the One I'm running to
Everything that's good and right and true
Jesus, I'm coming after who
You are, you are
the One I'm running to

Sentence Prayer

I pray, O God, that I may know Thee, that I may love Thee, so 

that I may rejoice in Thee. And if I cannot do this to the full in 

this life, at least let me go forward from day to day until that joy 

comes to fullness. Anselm

KISS

Snippet

Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, dream? 

Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt only 

by heart. Unknown

Scripture

So the son left and went to his father. “While the son was still a 

long way off, his father saw him and felt sorry for his son. So the 

father ran to him and hugged and kissed him. Luke 15:20 NCV

Song

Kiss Me Sixpence None the Richer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-qO3sPMjc

Oh kiss me out of the bearded barley,

Nightly , beside the green, green grass

Swing, swing, swing the spinning step

You'll wear those shoes and I will wear that dress

Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight

Lead me out on the moonlit floor

Lift you open hand

Strike up the band, and make the fireflies dance

Silvermoon's sparkling,

So kiss me

Kiss me down by the broken tree house 

Swing me , upon its hanging tire

Bring, bring , bring your flowered hat

We'll take the trail marked on your father's map

Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight

Lead me out on the moonlit floor

Lift you open hand

Strike up the band, and make the fireflies dance

Silvermoon's sparkling,

So kiss me

Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight

Lead me out on the moonlit floor

Lift you open hand

Strike up the band, and make the fireflies dance

Silvermoon's sparkling,

So kiss me

So kiss me

So kiss me

Sentence Prayer

Holy Spirit

Kiss My Heart

And stoke the blaze 

Of my heart.

Amen

9/11

Snippet

“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they 

are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” 

― Thomas Jefferson

Scripture

“Isn't the fast I choose:

To break the chains of wickedness, 

to untie the ropes of the yoke,

to set the oppressed free,

and to tear off every yoke? 

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, 

to bring the poor and homeless into your house,

to clothe the naked when you see him, 

and not to ignore your own flesh and blood? 

Then your light will appear like the dawn,

and your recovery will come quickly. ” Isaiah 58:6-8 HCSB

Song

Welcome to America Lecrae

http://youtu.be/qlx9jZcBkNA

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/welcome-to-america/id897749424?i=897749449

[Intro:]

Ladies and gentlemen

Good afternoon from the flight deck

Were cursing at 37,000 ft and we just passed over the coast

We will be beginning our descent in about a 30 minutes

Like to take this opportunity to welcome you to America

Ta na na na muchawa

Ta na na na muchawa

Ta na na na muchawa ta na na na na

[Verse 1:]

Uh

I was made in America land of the free, home of the brave

Right up under your nose you might see a sex slave in your trade

And will do anything for the money

Boy, a momma might sell her babies

Sell porn sell pills anything to pay the bills

Anything to bring that pay

Gotta scratch that itch gotta scratch them ticks

Ain’t rich but I might be

And I'mma shoot these flicks I'mma turn these tricks 

anything for a 

slight fee

Yea made in america

Momma told me that I belong here

Had earn all the stripes had to learn all rights had to fight 

for a home here

But I wouldn't know a thing about that

All I know is drugs and rap

I probably could have been some kinda doctor

Instead of hold-in guns and crack

I was born in the mainland

Great-grandpa from a strange land

He was stripped away and given bricks to lay

I guess you could say he a slave here

But I was made in america

So I don’t know a thing about that

All I know is uncle sam look-in for me working on his corner so I 

know I gotta pay tax

Gettin paid in America

I was raised in America

And this is all I ever known

If I’m wrong then you better come save me America

[Hook:]

Ta na na na muchawa muchawa

Ta na na na muchawa muchawa

Ta na na na muchawa muchawa

Ta na na na muchawa muchawa

Welcome to America [x5]

[Verse 2:]

Man I’d die for America

I serve my time for America

Got shot shot back with the war

Got back and ain’t nobody even jack in America

I could lost my life boy I lost my wife

I can’t even get right in my home land

Pulling sweats hold ticks paranoia

Looking out for a threat in own land

I was trained in America

How they get up in the planes in America

People running into buildings

Taking out them buildings

People getting killed in America

And I’m still in America

Though America ain’t feeling me

I went to war for this Country

Turn around came home and you rid of me

When y’all free here saying you don’t wanna be here

Well you probably could breathe here if I didn’t load a 

couple magazines here

Y’all just complain in America

I’m jumping out of military planes for America

Aye I was made in America

Thats why I’m out here saving America

I got a brother in the cemetery now

Cause he wanted y’all safe

And everybody want the freedom but nobody want to here 

about face

We bled for America

To keep y’all fed in America

But whats the point of talking a lot of y’all don’t really even 

care America

[Hook:]

Ta na na na muchawa muchawa ta na na na

Ta na na na muchawa muchawa ta na na na

Welcome to America [x5]

Ta na na na muchawa

Ta na na na muchawa

Ta na na na muchawa ta na na na na

[Verse 3:]

Uh

I wish I lived in America

Wanna raise my kids in america

Heard everybody rich all I gotta do is run jump kick

I might hit in your area

So please pick me America

I know you probably never loved me

You never hear about me on the news

And you’ve probably never been to my Country

I hear you selling education and got clothes that you throw away

Got plenty food in your nation

I can tell cause a lot of y’all are over weight

I already work for y’all

I’m at a sweatshops making these shirts for y’all

Gnaw I ain’t gettin money

Go to bed hungry but I make some xpoints for y’all

Y’all don’t know a thing about that

You was made in America

I’m trying to find me a ticket

Where the sky is the limit catch a plane to America

It should be plane to America

Y’all blessed people got it made

Heard y’all don’t play no more

Y’all ain’t saved no more

Y’all looking for another way

Well I hope it ain’t true

But I’m packing my suit

Farewell to my mother land

Say-in bye to my loved ones

Fate hear I come I’m gone to another land

I done made it to America

I’m amazed at America

But I couldn’t get approval to stay so they sent me away from 

America

Sentence Prayer

Lord, our nation has turned its back on you, but we hope you 

don't turn your back on us, even though we deserve such justice. 

We pray for mercy. Our country has forgotten how your hand has 

created and shaped us, but we hope you won't forget us. We pray 

for mercy. And we have treated your Holy Word with contempt 

and turned from its truth to follow the lies of our own sinful 

hearts. We hope you don't treat us as we have treated you and 

your Word. We pray for mercy. Mike Huckabee Facebook post 

National day of Prayer

DREAMS

Snippet

We must never put out dreams of success as God’s purpose for 

us.  The question of getting to a particular end is a mere incident.  

What we call the process, God calls the end.  His purpose is that I 

depend on Him and on His power now. It is the process, not the 

end which is glorifying to God. (Oswald Chambers, My utmost for 

His Highest Westwood NJ Barbour and Co 1963 Pg 152

Scripture

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, 

with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were 

ascending and descending on it. Genesis 28:12 NIV

Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i68ZHSlUrM

"Collapsible Lung” By Reliant K

Between the miles of open road

I lost sight of what might matter the most

I stumbled into the great unknown and found 

That time won’t slow down

I’m getting by with my collapsible lung

And it’s a good time 100% of the time

And I’m like a ladder with a missing rung

And it’s a slow climb headed back to the sky

And I’m feelin' backwards when I’m trying the most

And I hope haven’t heard the last words from the holy ghost

Cause I think that I’m supposed to be

Well on my way by now

I'll do the twist with my replaceable hips

And turn you right round 

Then dip you down to the ground

And now I wanna grow old and rub your tired limbs

And take it easy 

Until we wither away

Until we wither away

Between the miles of open road

I lost sight of what might matter the most

I stumbled into the great unknown and found 

That time can’t slow down

To take a breath and then take it in

To think of places I’ll go I haven’t been

To pour my heart into everything I've found 

Time won’t slow down

Feelin' backwards

And I hope haven’t heard the last words

No, no, no

Cause I think that I’m supposed to be

Well on my way-eh-eh!

Eh eh!

Wooo…

To pour my heart into everything I found

Between the miles of open road

I lost sight of what might matter the most

I stumbled into the great unknown and found 

That time won’t slow down

To take a breath and then take it in

To think of places I’ll go I haven’t been

Sentence Prayer

Bring us home to you, O God: here in this place, and wherever 

we may go. Common Prayer a Liturgy for ordinary Radicals 

Zondervan 388

BE STILL

Snippet

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and 

restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, 

flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the 

sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to 

touch souls.  Mother Teresa

Scripture

He makes wars cease

    to the ends of the earth.

He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;

    he burns the shields[a] with fire.

 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;

    I will be exalted among the nations,

    I will be exalted in the earth.”

 The Lord Almighty is with us;

    the God of Jacob is our fortress. Psalms 46:9-11 NIV

Song

Be Still The Fray

http://youtu.be/5nUuBjz4Vhc

Be still and know that I'm with you

Be still and know that I am here

Be still and know that I'm with you

Be still, be still, and know

When darkness comes upon you

And covers you with fear and shame

Be still and know that I'm with you

And I will say your name

If terror falls upon your bed

And sleep no longer comes

Remember all the words I said

Be still, be still, and know

And when you go through the valley

And the shadow comes down from the hill

If morning never comes to be

Be still, be still, be still

If you forget the way to go

And lose where you came from

If no one is standing beside you

Be still and know I am

Be still and know that I'm with you

Be still and know I am

Sentence Prayer

Father;

When the World tells us

We are what we do with

Our activity, acumen or achievement,

Let us learn

We are what we with our silence.

When the world tells us

We are what we do with 

Our spending power, selling power, or our power of speech,

Let us learn

We are what we do with our silence.

When the world tells us 

To drown the silent suffering of others

With indifference or noise,

Or to forget the art of stillness even in the storm,

Let us learn

We are what we do with our silence.

When the world tells us 

To rush in where angels fear to tread,

Let us learn that angels listen first

Before they take a step

For the voice of God in the silence

Amen  

(The Pattern of our days worship in the Celtic tradition form the Iona Community Kathy Galloway Pg 96)

MOVE

Snippet

“We are born to act”, said Mantaigne.  This is a truth of our 

experience that each one of us will recognize.  Every person is 

animated instinctively from youth by the drive to discover, to 

procreate, to transform the world.  Even when, later in life, we 

are constrained by weaknesses that reduce us to inactivity, we 

are still characterized by a desire that the world drive us to act if 

we could.  (To Act According to the Gospel Xavier Leon-Dufour 

Introduction)

Scripture

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and 

multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish 

of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing 

that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 NKJV

Song

Dare you to Move Switchfoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOTcr9wKC-o

Welcome to the planet

Welcome to existence

Everyone's here

Everyone's here

Everybody's watching you now

Everybody waits for you now

What happens next

What happens next

[Chorus]

I dare you to move

I dare you to move

I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor

I dare you to move

I dare you to move

Like today never happened

Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout

Welcome to resistance

The tension is here

Tension is here

Between who you are and who you could be

Between how it is and how it should be

[Chorus]

Maybe redemption has stories to tell

Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell

Where can you run to escape from yourself?

Where you gonna go?

Where you gonna go?

Salvation is here

I dare you to move

I dare you to move

I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor

I dare you to move

I dare you to move

Like today never happened

Today never happened

Today never happened

Today never happened before

Sentence Prayer

Help us to serve in our weakness, Lord:

And to see your power come down. Amen

(Common Prayer a Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals pg 387)

NEW

Snippet

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something 

old”  Peter F. Drucker

Scripture

Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self 

with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being 

renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there 

is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, 

Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. Colossians 

3:9-11 NIV

Song

Welcome to the New Mercy Me

http://youtu.be/99BfTQh14f8

Got to live right just stay in line

You’ve heard it all at least a million times

And like me you believed it

They said it wasn't works

But trying harder wouldn't hurt

It sounds so crazy now

But back then you couldn't see it

But now here you are

Eyes open wide

It’s like you’re seeing grace

In a brand new light

For the first time

Let us be the first to welcome you

Welcome to the 

Life you thought was too good to be true

Welcome to the new

You broke your back kept all the rules

Jumped through the hoops

To make God approve of you

Oh tell me was it worth it

The whole time you were spinning plates

Did you stop to think that 

Maybe He is ok with just you

There’s no need to join the circus

And now here you are

A new point of view

And now it all makes sense

Why it's called the Good News

And oh

Let us be the first to welcome you

Welcome to the 

Life you thought was too good to be true

Welcome to the new

Look at you

Shiny and new

Look at you

You got the proof of purchase

You were purchased

‘Cause you're worth it

Look at you

Finding your groove

Don’t you dare think

That you're not worth it.

‘Cause you're worth it

Yeah you're worth it

Let us be the first to welcome you

Welcome to the 

Life you thought was too good to be true

Welcome to the new

Sentence Prayer

Father; you precious gift of Jesus and His blood give me a new 

life, a new beginning, a new family and a new destination.  Praise 

be to God!  Holy Spirit help me to clothe myself in this new day 

with Christ and His actions. Amen!