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Church of the Good Shepherd

Psalm 23

“The Divine Shepherd

¹The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
²   He makes me lie down in green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters;
³   he restores my soul.
He leads me in right paths
   for his name’s sake.

⁴Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
   I fear no evil;
for you are with me;
   your rod and your staff—
   they comfort me.

⁵You prepare a table before me
   in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
   my cup overflows.
⁶Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
   all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
   my whole life long."

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“God loves each of us

as if there were only one of us.”

--St. Augustine.

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Philippians 2:5-11

“⁵Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
⁶who, though he was in the form of God,
   did not regard equality with God
   as something to be exploited,
⁷but emptied himself,
   taking the form of a slave,
   being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
⁸   he humbled himself
   and became obedient to the point of death—
   even death on a cross.

⁹Therefore God also highly exalted him
   and gave him the name
   that is above every name,
¹⁰so that at the name of Jesus
   every knee should bend,
   in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
¹¹and every tongue should confess
   that Jesus Christ is Lord,
   to the glory of God the Father.”

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“Do all the good you can

To all the people you can

In all the ways you can

For as long as you can.”

–D.L. Moody

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Psalm 42:1-2

“As a deer longs for flowing streams,
   so my soul longs for you, O God.
²My soul thirsts for God,
   for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
   the face of God?”

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“The feeling remains that

God is on the journey too.”

--St. Teresa of Avila

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John 1:1-5, 14

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was in the beginning with God. ³All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being ⁴in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it…  And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.”

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“When I stand before God at the end of my life,

I would hope that I would have not a single bit of talent left

and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.’ ”

--Erma Bombeck

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Romans 8:37-38

“In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

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“How wonderful it is that nobody

need wait a single moment

before beginning to improve the world.”

--Anne Frank

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Isaiah 40:28-31

“²⁸Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
   the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
   his understanding is unsearchable.
²⁹He gives power to the faint,
   and strengthens the powerless.
³⁰Even youths will faint and be weary,
   and the young will fall exhausted;
³¹but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
   they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
   they shall walk and not faint.”

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"The best portion of a

Good man's life,

His little nameless

Unremembered acts of

Kindness and of love."

-- William Wordsworth

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Philippians 4:8

“Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”

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"I am immortal

until my work is done."

--George Whitfield

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Galatians 5:22-26

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, ²³gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. ²⁴And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. ²⁶Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.”

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“Preach the gospel at all times

and when necessary use words.”

--St. Francis of Assisi

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1^st Corinthians 13:1-13

“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ²And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant ⁵or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. ⁷It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 “Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. ⁹For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; ¹⁰but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. ¹²For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. ¹³And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”

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