Christ Our Shepherd Church 801 North Carolina Avenue SE Washington, DC 20003 202 544-9599 Healing Prayer At Christ Our Shepherd Church it is understood that Healing Prayer is a valuable part of bringing restoration of wholeness, well-being and health of mind, emotions, body and soul where there has been loss of such for any reason. Healing Prayer is not a counseling service, nor is it considered a professional service. It is a...
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Washington Community Fellowship 907 Maryland Avenue NE Washington, DC 20002 202 543-1926 Healing Prayer Team The Healing Prayer Ministry at WCF invites you to times of prayer during the worship service. Prayer is available for all, even if you do not currently think of WCF as your church home. On designated Sundays, the Healing Prayer Team is available to pray with you in the sanctuary during the service, and after the service at the...
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O Lord Christ, who in this difficult world was tempted in all things, as I am, yet fell into no sin, look pitifully, I pray you, upon me. Guide me with your adorable wisdom. Teach me in everything and in every hour what I ought to do. You alone know both that I suffer and what I need. To you, that perfect path that I should walk is known. Show it to me and teach me how to walk it. Keep me, O Savior, in body, mind, and spirit,...
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The presider wraps a colorful, thick ribbon around the couples’ joined hands. (Names of the two being married) N. and N., today you enter a journey of life together, a life that finds its source in divine love, enfleshed in your love for one another. Just as ranchers and farmers use a rope to help them find their way in a blinding snowstorm, you will sometimes need to have a strong ribbon of love to help you find your way back home...
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All summer I heard them rustling in the shrubbery, outracing me from tier to tier in my garden, a whisper among the viburnums, a signal flashed from the hedgerow, a shadow pulsing in the barberry thicket. Now that the nights are chill and the annuals spent, I should have thought them gone, in a torpor of blood slipped to the nether world before the sickle frost. Not so. In the deceptive balm of noon, as if defiant of the curse that...
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