10/18/26 Through 10/24/26

 10/18/26 Through 10/24/26

Sunday

Lord, giving what belongs to Thee

Means giving every part of me

My life, my death, and in between

All seen and what remains unseen

I need to trust Your love is good

And act the way I know I should

Refusing little pleasures when

They make me turn from You again

The emptiness they never fill 

But pull me from the Father's will

Then scorn and laughter come my way

From those who led me on astray

What body needs should body get

But let us never once forget

Who made it all and so deserves

Our all be given; no reserves.

Monday

Have riches taken hold in me?

Are riches taking over me?

What point in all we have or do

Except to be as one with You

What's temporary does no good

To see as such, believers should

And readily begin to share

The all we have of temporal fare

Good stewards all are meant to be

To share with generosity

The goods with which He blesses now

So all may have enough somehow

Tuesday

Blest are those ready when Jesus arrives

In want or in plenty, whichever, he thrives

The ones who are listening, ready to act

Never their fervor is loosened or slacked

Christ came as the Savior for all of mankind

So, peace in the Cross, opponents would find

Peace through forgiveness, confessing of sin

Repentance and love, and welcoming in

Uniting all men with the sign of the Cross

In want or in plenty, in gain or in loss

Be ready whenever He knocks at the door

The faithful receive all He has in the store

Wednesday

Be one prepared in every day

To live His word in every way

To follow in the steps He trod

And listen for the voice of God

He speaks in many varied ways

Sometimes it's clear or in a haze

So, we must always look to see

The word He sends to set us free

It calls to greater letting go

So greater we might come to know

The grace and riches offered still 

To those who do the Father's will

How blest they'll be when Christ returns

And then the stubborn sinner burns

The time for change has come and gone

Division lines now firmly drawn

No turning back upon that day

Forever set, our future way

A one forever far from Love

Or one in perfect bliss above

Thursday

My best is so paltry, but all that I own

My sacrifice, loving the Godhead alone

The Father, so loving, so giving and kind

The all of creation conceived in His mind

The Son, who would sacrifice all for His will

The Cross and the beating, astounding me still

A lack of respect for the love of our Lord

In place of the Cross every mercy outpoured

The Spirit who leads to the way up above

Is sent by the Son through His great act of love

To strengthen and prosper and ever remind

That all we must give, so that all we may find

Division He brings between light and the dark

A contrast so clear and astoundingly stark

When love is at work, every selfishness pales

In weakest of light, every darkness but fails.

Friday

So intricate, detailed and fine

And yet so simple, thoughts of mine

What is a thought but love from God

To draw us on the way we trod?

We know not how, or why, or when

Our Lord began His thought for men

But when He did, twas love that ruled

When He allowed that they be fooled

And given will that they might choose

Eternal life, or life to lose

Forever in the Maker's care

Or left alone in selfish fare

We are so small, yet great indeed

The product of the Father's seed

His thought alone and we are here

A life with Him should have no fear

For he is love and love alone

The source of love since love was known

A total gift of self He gives

And all creation, through Him lives

The sky, the wind, the sun, and moon

Are quite enough to make me swoon

But every grain of sand He knows

And through His love all blessing flows

So, recognize Him here or there

Then recognize Him everywhere

You have not made a grain of sand

But He has all for blessing planned.

Saturday

Every part in trial faces

Need for God and special graces

All not given there to any

So anointed are the many

Each a sacred, holy unction

Given to improve our function

See the good and how they matter

Not to charm or simply flatter

But a body so in union

Full, complete, and in communion

That in Her the Savior seeing

All might come to be believing.