# [Who Are You God](https://bluebookstudy.captivate.fm/episode/who-are-you-god) > Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God.![[Kerrville Cross 2.jpg]] ### 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 10:1-18 ##### I Am the Good Shepherd *10 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.* *7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”* ##### Reading for Reflection: *It’s true, Lord, that you are always thinking of us. It’s true from the beginning of time, before we existed, even before the world existed, You have been dreaming of me, thinking of me, loving me. Not assembly line, but unique, the first one so made, and the last, indispensable to humanity. It’s true that you have an eternal plan for me alone, a wonderful plan that you have always cherished in your heart, as a father thinks over the smallest details in the life of his little one still unborn. It’s true that, always bending over me, you guide me to bring your plan about, light on my path and strength for my soul. It’s true that you are saddened when I stray or run away, but that you hasten to pick me up if I stumble or fall.* ​ *Lord, you make bald heads, but above all beautiful lives, You, the divine Attentive One, the divine Patient One, the divine Present One, see that at no time I forget your presence. I don’t ask you to bless what I have decided to do, but give me the grace to discover and to live what you have dreamed for me.* ​ *Lord, living in your grace, let me share a little, through* *the attention I give to others, your loving care for us. Let me, on my knees, adore in them the mystery of your created love. Let me respect your idea of them without trying to impose my own. May I allow them to follow the path that you have marked out for them without trying to take them along mine. May I realize that they are indispensable to the world, and that I can’t do without the least of them. May I never tire of looking at them and enriching myself with the treasures you have entrusted to them. Help me to praise you in their journeyings, to find you in their lives.* ​ *Grant that not an instant of their existence go by, not a hair of their heads fall, by me, as by you, unheeded. (Prayers of Life by Michael Quoist)* #### 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)*