April 03, 2006

I. Readings
Psalms 6, 119:73-80, 121
Exodus 4:10-31
1 Corinthians 14:1-19
Mark 9:30-41

II. Selections
Psalm 119:73
Your hands have made and fashioned me;
give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

Exodus 4:10-31
" ...You shall speak to [ Aaron] and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. ..." [ God to Moses]

1 Corinthians 14:15
What shall I do then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray with the mind also; I will sing praise with the spirit, but I will sing praise with the mind also.

Mark 9:34
But [ his disciples] were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest.

III. Meditation: Words in the mouth
Your hands have made and fashioned me-
my mouth, my mind, my spirit;
give me understanding,
that I may learn your commandments
and everything you want to teach me.

Put your words in my mouth
and in the mouths of those who speak to me;
be with my mouth and their mouths,
that we may pray and sing with our spirits
and also with our minds.

When we wander away from your teaching,
when our praise turns toward ourselves,
then confront us with our errors
and scrub out of our mouths all words
except the words of repentance.