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WEDNESDAY, July 1 Canada Day (Canada)
Psalm 119:145-176. Early in the morning I cry out to you.
On the first day of the week I had set aside to begin writing these meditations, I was up at 5:30 a.m. My plan was to do chores, get cleaned up, attend Morning Prayer at my church in town, then return to the country for a full day of silent meditation and inspired writing.
But about fifteen minutes short of town, I had to stop on a dark, two-lane country road after a tire blew. Help came in the form of my husband, and another thirty minutes had me on the road--not to Morning Prayer but to the tire store.
As I meandered the winding road toward town, I pondered how the morning schedule had similarly turned, first this way then that. One unfamiliar with our country road might anxiously anticipate what unknown events and places lie ahead. But today's psalm also reassures, "You, O Lord, are near at hand."
The nearness of the Lord for me today would be the waiting room at the tire shop where I could read the scriptures away from distractions at home and meditate on what words would follow this month. "Great is your compassion, O Lord."
PRAY for the Diocese of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada)
Ps * 128, 129, 130; 1 Samuel 12:1-6, 16-25; Acts 8:14-25; Luke 23:1-12
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O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
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