SUNDAY, August 8 11 Pentecost

Luke 12:32-40. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

What do we value most highly in our lives, not just in fine principle but in daily practice? Our creature comforts, or our immortal souls? Our morning prayers, or that first cup of coffee? Before saying “My prayers, of course!” look again. Confronted by a choice between spending this evening with a lonely soul in a rest home or relaxing in front of the television for your favorite program, which do you the more want to do? Where is your treasure? For there your heart, your enthusiasm, your pleasure, will be.

We all need an occasional audit and overhaul of our hearts’ treasures. If you are the sole exception, blessed are you. Do write a book and tell us how you do it. It will be a best seller. (1964)

How many things in life do people labor after which, when gotten, are as much real use to them as a staff and shoes to a corpse underground?

—William Law

PRAY for The Church of the Province of South East Asia and the Diocese of Singapore

Ps 50:1-8, 23-24 and Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 –OR– Ps 33:12-22 and Genesis 15:1-6; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

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Or view the Bible passages at Biblegateway.com.

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