Future Uncertain Please Pray … Ecclesiastes 3:1 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…” Dear Friends of the Wholeness Services, We are all in an odd season in life … one not predicted or expected … one that remains constantly open to the […]
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Dear Friends of the Wholeness Services, In recent weeks the Serenity Prayer has taken on a new twist for me, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” We are all living […]
/maxresdefault.jpg” /> Once again tonight, we invite you to share with us in our monthly hour of prayer. We are one in the Spirit, and we believe that if we gather together, God is in our midst. And this month, we’ve brought you a heightened experience that you can stream […]
Dear Friends of the Wholeness Services, Being the eve of April 1st I’d love to tell you that Covid-19 is just a really bad joke. But it is not. It is real. I will however remind you that “God didn’t give us a spirit that is timid but one that is powerful, […]
A final song for your evening, and a reminder of the season of Lent. Christ suffered through desert times, and paid the price for our sins. By His stripes, we are healed. By Your Cross By your cross and all the wounds You suffered, grant us freedom in Your love. […]
In the first days last week of realizing we were on a collision course with COVID-19, it seemed surreal. But I felt and feel a deep peace … a peace born of God’s presence with us and the Creator’s abundant grace surrounding us. It is the type of peace I […]
Although we cannot be together to share Communion, we invite you to join your voices and spirits with ours as we remember Christ’s last meal with His disciples. If you feel moved, prepare some elements of Communion in your own home to symbolically share with us and your loved ones, […]
At an appointed time in our normal services, we observe a symbolic ritual of candlelighting and private intercession. When you are directing your own contemplative prayers, we invite you to do the same. Find a small candle in your home or private space that you can light right now. Let […]
Oh, Lord, we find ourselves in the midst of our 40 days of desert time, similar to Your 40 days in the desert. In completing our preparation for your Resurrection, help us Oh, Lord. We come before you, Lord, in this time of reflection, becoming more aware of our insignificance in […]
It is our custom to sing together after the meditation of the evening. Please join your spirits and voices with ours in these comforting words from the Community of Taizé. It is good to trust in the Lord our God, trust and hope in the Lord our God. We now […]
A timely meditation from Rev. John Clifford, speaker for the March Wholeness Service. Desert Times in the midst of Lent.