Saying For Today: This is the first weekly online contemplative worship experience offered by OneLife Ministries, and Brian Kenneth Wilcox Ministries. Hope you enjoy!
Welcome to OneLife Ministries, an on-line ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. I hope persons of varied wisdom paths will find inspiration here.
You are invited to join Brian at his groups on Facebook : Brian Kenneth Wilcox; Sanctum of Prayer; Love & Light; Christian Spirituality. Brian is on YouTube with videos pertaining to spirituality, and on Tweeter. For details or booking of events, you can contact Brian at briankwilcox@yahoo.com .
WORSHIP THROUGH SILENCE
Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.
*Thomas Kelly, Quaker mystic
Enter this sanctuary time by settling down, becoming quiet, and breathing deeply some breaths. Remind yourself you are in the Presence of Love. This place you are entering, within, is the inner Temple, where you are One with God. You may wish to use a mantra, or prayer phrase, follow the breathing in-and-out, or witness the arising and falling of all around you as the manifestation of universal-Spirit. Enjoy these moments of quietly settling and come out when you are ready.
WORSHIP THROUGH PRAYER
Enjoy Andrea Bochelli "The Lord's Prayer," and add other prayer as you wish in this time of Prayer.
The Lord's Prayer
WORSHIP THROUGH THE WRITTEN WORD
Epistle Reading
Galatians 5.22-23 (ESV)
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness,self-control; against such things there is no law.
Gospel Reading
Mark 12.41-44 (ESV)
41And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. 42And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. 43And he called his disciples to him and said to them, "Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. 44For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on."
WORSHIP THROUGH SONG
MICHAEL W. SMITH. WHEN I THINK OF YOU.
WORSHIP THROUGH THE SPOKEN WORD
THE SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY
Rev Dr Brian Kenneth Wilcox
WORSHIP THROUGH RESPONSE
Quiet Reflections
This time is for us to reflect prayerfully, and in silence, seeking to listen to the Inner Voice of Love, in considering the ways we practice gratitude and ways we can do so.
Song
LEAD KINDLY LIGHT. WORDS, JOHN H.NEWMAN, 1821-1890 COMPOSER, JOHN B. DYKES, 1823-1876 ORIGINAL TUNE, "LUX BENIGNA" ("KINDLY LIGHT")
WORSHIP THROUGH BLESSING
The Grace of Christ, the Love of our God, Who is our Father, our Mother, and the Communion of the Holy Spirit be with you. Amen!
*OneLife Ministries is a division of Brian Kenneth Wilcox Ministries, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life, as an Associate of Greenbough House of Prayer. He lives with his two doggie friends, Bandit Ty and St. Francis and serves as writer, teacher, retreat and workshop leader, and jail Chaplain. He is creator and administrator of the Facebook sites Sanctum of Prayer, Christian Spirituality, and his business site Love & Light. His personal Facebook page is Brian Kenneth Wilcox.
*You can order his book An Ache for Union from major booksellers.
