Richella J. Parham

Speaker + Author: Mythical Me and A Spiritual Formation Primer. Host, Friends in Formation podcast. Chair, Renovaré US.

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@ChrisLeaTV @WRAL What a great mom!

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@BethMooreLPM A word from the scarred, echoed by the scarred, heard by those perhaps scarred themselves or perhaps yet to be. No one gets through life unscathed, so why pretend otherwise? Yet no one gets through life unloved by God.

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@MichaelRWear So very sorry, Michael. Praying for complete healing—and quick would be good. Bless you.

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@mlcfrench @chfepiscopal Clarke, you will be missed. North Carolina’s loss is New Jersey’s gain.

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Pause for prayer: In the words of the old hymn, we pray:⁣
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Savior, teach me day by day⁣
Love’s sweet lesson to obey. ⁣
Sweeter lesson cannot be:⁣
Loving God who first loves me. Amen.⁣
(Jane Leeson, 1842)

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@Amy_Odland @KatelynBeaty @BethMooreLPM Great choice, Amy. @BethMooreLPM is both grace-filled and gracious…a combination that’s too rare!

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@KaitlynSchiess Very encouraging to see our male colleagues speaking up here and sympathizing with this challenge!

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@TheKateBoyd @KaitlynSchiess Yes to the belt. Actually kind of fun now to look for dresses with belts.

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@CarolynArends Makes me want to hang out with you more!

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Pause for prayer: Lord, help us with our mouths. Teach us to speak the truth with love, understanding that “truth” without love is not actually truth at all. Help us to be tender-hearted and empathetic toward each other. May our words impart grace to one another. Amen.

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Pause for prayer: Lord, you never humiliate us; you’re the lifter of our heads. Help us to be more like you. May we not succumb to temptation to humiliate any of your image bearers. Help us instead to follow your example of true humility and loving kindness to one another. Amen.

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Pause for prayer:Lord, as this week draws to a close, we look back and thank you for the way you have brought us through it: through good times and bad, through victory and defeat, through the memorable and the mundane—you have been with us every step of the way. Thank you. Amen.

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Pause for prayer: Lord, the days are flying by, and there never seems to be enough time to get everything done. It’s so easy to feel frazzled and frantic. So we thank you for being the same yesterday, today, and forever: eternally good, endlessly loving, and always with us. Amen.

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@MarlenaGraves So so so happy for you!!

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Pause for prayer: Lord, we thank you for being with us and for us. Because you are so good and so full of love, we can trust you. And because you are here with us, we can look to you for help, no matter what we’re facing. Help us to turn to you. Amen.

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Pause for prayer: Lord, it’s hot: the weather, the atmosphere, the political climate. Please send your Spirit to set our souls aflame with your love and also to put out the fires of hate. Help us to care about what you care about. Amen.

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Pause for prayer: Lord, we thank you for the way you’ve honored humanity by making us your image-bearers. You’ve made us relational beings like you are. Please help us to become more like you in the way we interact with one another: loving, good, kind, and trustworthy. Amen.

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Pause for prayer: Lord, you’ve given us things that last: faith, hope, and love. Keep our faith anchored in you and our hope fastened to you, and fill our hearts with your generous, self-giving love. Then give us courage to reach out to one another to share your good gifts. Amen.