2024 07 13

Aaron Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjssV8UuVA

Slatkin conducts Appalachian Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMaAe2aH6pw

1 Corinthians 13 New King James Version

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
     Jesus, please help me speak with your love.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
     Holy Spirit, let your words sink into my heart and give me your love.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
     Father, please help me give with your love.

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
     Holy Spirit, please give me your give of long-suffering.

5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
     Jesus, keep me from being provoked to the folly of thinking evil.

6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
     Father, please help me take no delight in evil.

7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
     Holy spirit, help me follow Jesus in bearing all things.

8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
     Jesus, your love never fails; help me remember that in times of trial.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
     Holy Spirit, help me know my knowledge is imperfect.

10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
     Father, I long for the day of your perfection to be manifest.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
     Father, bring us to maturity and help us put away childish things.

12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
     LORD, you know my uprising and my down sitting, you know every word of my mouth even before I speak it. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
     Jean used to point out to me that in the Greek FAITH is often a verb; so Lord, help me faith today.

A Word Received: Let my faith, hope and love abide in you today as you talk with others.

Albany Intercessor