Computer Cud         V 2 asks us to read the Bible every day,   'to have a burning love'   for the Word of God              Resolution

This plan follows the Sunday liturgy:    reading + psalm + reading + gospel                  From  www.simplebible.info 

O Holy Spirit, please guide me as I read these passages for today. 
May these passages give me hope, strength, wisdom, courage and peace for my daily life 

Whenever the Israelites pitched camp
the Cloud of God's presence covered the Sacred Tent.

From nightfall until morning,
the Cloud took the appearance of fire.

Whenever the Cloud lifted above the Tent,
the Israelites broke camp.

Wherever the Cloud stopped,
there the Israelites pitched camp.

Sometimes the Cloud stayed in one place
for one day, sometimes for a month, sometimes a year.

However long the Cloud stayed above the Tent
the Israelites remained in camp.

In this way they pitched camp and broke camp
at the Lord's command

The Cloud in Christian tradition is understood to be God the Holy Spirit, so we can pray:
  Dear Holy Spirit, please lead me and guide me
just as you guided the Israelites through the desert

When the Lord delivered Zion from bondage,
it seemed like a dream.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter,
on our lips there were songs.

What marvels the Lord worked for us.
Indeed we were glad.

Those who are sowing in tears
will sing when they reap.

They go out, full of tears, carrying seed for the sowing.
They come back, full of song, carrying their sheaves.

Dear God, please bless all people who are sorrowful as they work

Everyone moved by the Spirit is a child of God. 
The Spirit lets us use children's language to speak to God  tenderly as "Abba, Father"

Since we are God's children, we are also his heirs, coheirs with Jesus,
sharing his suffering so as to share his glory

What we suffer in this life can never be compared with the glorious life we will have in heaven

The whole of creation looks forward to sharing the same glory, to sharing immortality

Abba, Father, may everyone love and honor you. Help everyone get to heaven

Jesus went again to the Sea of Galilee.
Many people came to him and he taught them there by the sea.

Near the sea he saw a tax collector Levi (Matthew) working at the customs house.
Jesus said to him "Follow me". He got up and followed him.

Levi gave a dinner in his house for Jesus.
Sitting with Jesus were some tax collectors and "sinners".
In fact Jesus' followers included many tax collectors and "sinners".

Some religious leaders asked Jesus' disciples
"Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"

Jesus himself answered them: "It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick.
I did not come to call the virtuous, but sinners."

Jesus, thank you for being a friend of people who are rejected and despised