Weekly Practice 9/14/26
Make every effort to do or reflect upon this week’s practice with others.
Prayer
O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Scripture
John 15:12-17 NLT
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!”
Practice
Annual Examen, Part 2: Know & Love Others
If needed, continue last week’s practice of looking back over the past year and reflecting on your relationship with God. There’s no rush. Take it a little at a time. Allow God to reveal things at his pace. Over the next three weeks, we simply zero-in on some specific areas.
This week, prayerfully considering the last year:
How have others been a source of God's love and transformation for you?
How have you been a source of God’s love and transformation for others?
Which relationships would you like God to change, grow, heal, or reconcile this coming year?
