# [Who are You Father](https://bluebookstudy.captivate.fm/episode/who-are-you-father) ![[Kerrville Cross 16.jpg]] > Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God. ### Opening Prayer: *Dear Jesus, Who am I really? What do you see in me that you would move heaven and earth to capture my heart? My life feels like a collection of other people’s expectations and disappointments. I do not even know anymore who I truly am. Reveal to me my true identity, my true place in Your story. Give me grace to hear your voice; shut out all other voices, and let me hear from you alone. I ask this in your name. Amen. (The Sacred Romance Workbook by John Eldredge)* #### Psalm for the Week: Psalm 62 #### My Soul Waits for God Alone #### To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. *62 For God alone my soul waits in silence;from him comes my salvation.2 He alone is my rock and my salvation,my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.* *3 How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?4 They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood.* *They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah* *5 For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,for my hope is from him.6 He only is my rock and my salvation,my fortress; I shall not be shaken.7 On God rests my salvation and my glory;my mighty rock, my refuge is God.* *8 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him;God is a refuge for us. Selah* *9 Those of low estate are but a breath;those of high estate are a delusion;in the balances they go up;they are together lighter than a breath.10 Put no trust in extortion;set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.* *11 Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,12 and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work.* #### Scripture for the Day: John 15:1-11 #### I Am the True Vine 1*5 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.* #### Reading for Reflection: *At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose your self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I 's. But in only one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one—which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your I. (Markings by Dag Hammarskjold)* #### Reflection and Listening: silent and written #### Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself #### Song for the Week: Arise (by Ryan Long) *Beloved can you hear me* *I call across eternity* *I am your God* *Are you listening?* *Arise my Love and Come with me* *Arise my Love and Come with me* *Your heart is sore. Your feet are weary.* *Your hope is gone. Your head is hung.* *Leave behind the nothing* *That you've become.* *Arise my love and come with me.* *Arise my love and come with me.* *Arise and come and become what you believe.* *Lay down your burdens my love and come with me.* *Arise my love and come with me.* *Arise my Love and Come with me* ### Closing Prayer: *O God, our Heavenly Father, who created us beautifully and wonderfully, may we always look to You for our value and worth, remembering that we are a unique expression of your infinite love, care, and creativity. Help us, O Lord, to see ourselves as you see us—objects of your extravagant love and tender affection. Through Christ. Amen. (JLB)*