Sunday October 26: When the Heart Bows, Grace Enters

To Practice

• The Prayer of Yielding: This week, take a few quiet moments each day to let go of managing life or shaping outcomes. Simply sit before God as you are, open and undefended. Whisper the words: “Be it done unto me according to your word.” Allow this prayer to soften the heart. Notice how humility creates spaciousness — a readiness for grace to work in ways you cannot plan or predict.
• Living the Poem: Throughout the week, let humility express itself as quiet creativity. Do one small act of love, unseen, unasked for, unrecorded, and let it become a kind of poetry. Allow daily life to be the medium through which God’s love takes shape: a kind word where judgment might have risen, a listening silence where opinion once spoke. At day’s end, pause to recognize how such moments turn the ordinary into the movement of Divine Love.

If you wish, you may re-read (or listen to) today’s email here: https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2025_word-of-the-week-oct26

Each night, before sleep, I pray “May it be done to me according to Thy word, into Your hands I commend my spirit.” Whatever angsts or frustrations I encounter each day, each evening I acknowledge my pledge of participation according to God’s word. I honestly know not all can be easily released yet am daily reminded how much I can “let go and let God”. I do rest sounder. <3 linda

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