# The Song day 6 > Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God. ### Opening Prayer: *O Lord, as we spend time with you and your Word this day, let us hear the words of your Ancient Song; and let us listen closely for the Song of God that rises in our hearts. In Christ. Amen. (JLB)* #### Psalm for the Week: Psalm 100 #### His Steadfast Love Endures Forever #### A Psalm for giving thanks. **100 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!3 Know that the Lord, he is God!It is he who made us, and we are his;[a] we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!5 For the Lord is good;his steadfast love endures forever,and his faithfulness to all generations.* #### Scripture for the Day: Psalm 95 #### Let Us Sing Songs of Praise *95 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!3 For the Lord is a great God,and a great King above all gods.4 In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.* *6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!7 For he is our God,and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.Today, if you hear his voice,8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,9 when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.* *10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.”* #### Reading for Reflection: *When you feel invited to remain in silence at Our Lord's feet like Magdalen just looking at Him with your heart without saying anything, don't cast about for any thoughts or reasonings, but just remain in loving adoration. Follow the whisperings of the Holy Ghost. If He invites you to beg, beg; if to be silent, remain silent; if to show your misery to God, just do so. Let Him play on the fibers of your heart like a harpist, and draw forth the melody He wishes for the Divine Spouse. (Union with God by Dom Marmion)* #### Reflection and Listening: silent and written #### Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself #### Song for the Week: Thy Mercy, My God *Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song,* *The joy of my heart. and the boast of my tongue;* *Thy free grace alone, from the first to the last,* *Hath won my affections, and bound my soul fast.* *Without Thy sweet mercy I could not live here;* *Sin would reduce me to utter despair;* *But, through Thy free goodness, my spirits revive,* *And He that first made me still keeps me alive.* *Thy mercy is more than a match for my heart,* *Which wonders to feel its own hardness depart;* *Dissolved by Thy goodness, I fall to the ground,* *And weep to the praise of the mercy I’ve found.* *Great Father of mercies, Thy goodness I own,* *And the covenant love of Thy crucified Son;* *All praise to the Spirit, Whose whisper divine* *Seals mercy, and pardon, and righteousness mine.* *All praise to the Spirit, Whose whisper divine* *Seals mercy, and pardon, and righteousness mine.* ### Closing Prayer *Everything in all of creation, O Lord, is a unique song of yours. And when we sing our song—that song that is buried deeply within each of us—we are indeed being who we were made to be. We are in harmony (shalom) with the voice of our Maker. Help us to sing our song (Your song) clearly and fully this day. In the name of Jesus. Amen. (JLB)* ----------------------