Held | Friday Week 13 | Hosea 11:3–4

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Hello, and welcome to Held, where we break open scripture using an ancient technique called Lectio Divina.

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Each day we read and meditate on sacred scripture while allowing quiet time to sit and listen to God's voice There will be times in the podcast when I will instruct you to hit pause.

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It's important that you take however long you need during those periods of time.

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There's no need to rush So let's open with our prayer to the Holy Spirit, followed by our prayer to St.

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Gabriel Come, Holy Spirit, come.

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Come, Holy Spirit, come.

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Holy Spirit, this week has been an honest look at whether we actually believe that we're held or if we just say we are As we close it, help us to carry the steadiness forward into whatever comes next Saint Gabriel, messenger of God, you were entrusted with bringing God's word to Mary.

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Help me to be attentive to God's voice today.

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Help me to receive his word with the same openness and trust that Mary showed.

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Pray for me as I enter into this time of prayer.

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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

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Amen.

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So today's scripture reading is from the Book of Hosea.

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It's chapter 11, verses three through four Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk.

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I took them up in my arms, but they did not know that I healed them.

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I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love.

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I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks.

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I bent down to them and fed them So before we go and move to the meditation phase of the Lectio Divina, I want to go in and read this scripture a second time.

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I'm going to go and I'm going to slow things down and just be attentive to what word or phrase or, or sometimes when the, when the scripture's short like today, maybe the entirety of the scripture was just really speaking to you today.

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But I just ask, just be attentive to the words as I slow down and read it the second time Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk.

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I took them up in my arms But they did not know that I healed them I led them with cords of human kindness With bands of love I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks I bent down to them and fed them So as we enter into our meditation, we're gonna take a moment, we're g- we're gonna sit with the scripture we just heard.

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What, again, what word or phrases caught your attention? You know, this week you sat with a trust that was hard-earned and security that can't be lost.

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Now sit with a God who is patient with you What would it mean to stop rushing your own healing? Don't try to solve anything.

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Simply notice what God may be drawing your attention toward Go ahead and pause the podcast now, and please take as much time as you need Now we'll respond to God in prayer.

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Bring him whatever in you still feels unsteady or unfinished.

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Ask him to keep teaching you to walk at whatever pace that takes Now go ahead and pause the podcast now And take as long as you need to pray As we enter into the contemplation phase and, and we quiet our minds down, letting the words go, simply resting in God's presence, I just remind you that it's okay if your mind wanders.

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It's, it's often time hard sometimes to really quiet our minds down.

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So it's okay if it wanders.

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Just go ahead and just take a quick breath.

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I like to say a quick prayer to the Holy Spirit when that happens to me, and then just, just bring it back, quieting your mind.

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And then we're just gonna simply rest in God's presence.

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We're gonna be still knowing that He is here So go ahead and pause the podcast now, staying as long as you need in contemplation This week, we sat with a trust that was hard-earned in Psalm 73, a security that can't be lost in John 10, and now a tenderness that teaches us to walk in Hosea 11.

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Different passages, one hand As we close out volume one of the Held series Let this truth settle deeply.

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You are not forgotten, overlooked, or alone.

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You are known, you are remembered, and you are held always Be patient, be steady, be present.

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Go in peace and go share the love of Christ with the world around you Until next time, may you always remember that you are held