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\"\"<\/p>\n

Opening Prayer<\/h3>\n

\u201cWorship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness\u2026.<\/em>\u201d Psalm 29:2<\/a><\/p>\n

 
\nO God,
\nwhose holiness is not limited to
\n      grand cathedrals or saintly persons,
\n      spectacular mountains or mountain-moving leaders;
\nO God,
\nwhose holiness is often discovered in simple everyday places
\n      and simple everyday folk,
\nplant Your holiness in this place,
\n      in us now.
\nGrow us this hour,
\n      that we might flower,
\n      right where we are,
\n      with the beauty of Your holiness.
\nThrough Jesus we pray.
\nAmen.<\/p>\n

 
\n~ posted on My Redeemer Lives<\/a> website. <\/p>\n\n

Note: Next month’s theme is “Response”. Week by week I will be posting a litany based on the lectionary psalm and a sung response I’ve written specially for services in my church in Rotterdam in the month of August. The psalms are Psalm 17, 105, 133 and 124.
\n 
\nGet in touch if you’d like to use the litanies too. I can provide recordings and basic notation (melody line and chords).
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening Prayer \u201cWorship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness\u2026.\u201d Psalm 29:2   O God, whose holiness is not limited to       grand cathedrals or saintly persons,       spectacular mountains or mountain-moving leaders; O God, whose holiness is often discovered in simple everyday places       and simple everyday folk, plant Your holiness in this place,       in us … Continue reading “Flower where you are”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,3,24],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-14315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-prayer","category-tip","tag-bloom"],"yoast_head":"\nFlower where you are - 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CALL TO WORSHIP (inspired by Matt 11:29 and Rev 21:5) Come all who are weary of wealth, of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "prayer sheet"","block_context":{"text":"prayer sheet","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/prayer-sheet\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1740,"url":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2017\/07\/31\/waters-of-baptism\/","url_meta":{"origin":14315,"position":5},"title":"Waters of baptism","author":"Irene Bom","date":"July 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"As we come to the end of a month-long celebration of water and the many ways it touches our lives as people and as people of faith, finally a post on baptism. \u201cWhenever I hear the sound of water flowing or see the water poured in the sacrament of baptism,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "article"","block_context":{"text":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Irene Bom","author_link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/author\/irenebom-com\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/creativity\/\" rel=\"category tag\">creativity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/prayer\/\" rel=\"category tag\">prayer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/tip\/\" rel=\"category tag\">tip<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Opening Prayer \u201cWorship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness\u2026.\u201d Psalm 29:2   O God, whose holiness is not limited to       grand cathedrals or saintly persons,       spectacular mountains or mountain-moving leaders; O God, whose holiness is often discovered in simple everyday places       and simple everyday folk, plant Your holiness in this place,       in us…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}