Prayer Bracelet: The Life of Christ
With prayer band in hand
Use the beads
To review
To refocus
To reawaken
To remind
To reorient
To recollect
To rediscover
The Life of Christ
Hold the God Bead
Remember Christ
One of Trinity
Word With God at Creation
He came to Earth
At the Father’s bidding
Returning to Him
To reign
He sends the Holy Spirit
As Comforter
Each of the Trinity are God
The One who loves us so much
He would sacrifice part of Himself
To reach us…
1st pause in Silent Awe
[Do not skip the pauses
Most important
Focus on resting in God
Listen for the Voice of the Shepherd
Make it an Attitude of Gratitude]
“Step out of the traffic and take a long loving look at me…” Ps 46v10 Msg
Hold the ‘me’ Bead
In Christ
God became man
Human and Divine
Leaving Glory throne
Born as a baby
Small
Vulnerable
Surrendering all
To show
How deep His love
Almighty God
Suddenly subjected
To human frailty
With
Limitations
With
Corruption
As a boy
He grew
Part of a family
Part of community
Taking up the family trade
As a carpenter
He knew
Failure
Frustration
Satisfaction
He experienced
Cuts
Splinters
Grazes
Aches and pain
Hunger and thirst
Tears and laughter
Loves and scorn
Like you
Like me
All the time Knowing
Heaven with all the angels
At His command
All the time Knowing
Oneness with God
He chose to
Put it all aside
For Human life
For Human experience
No shortcuts
For you
For me
Pause in Silent Wonder
Hold the Bead of the Baptised
Jesus
Obedient to the Father
Setting the example
By dying to Self
In the waters of Baptism
Humbling Himself
Before the crowds
Before The Baptistiser
Jesus
Sets the example
Always
From the beginning
To the culmination
Of His ministry
He humbled Himself
To keep us close
Pause in Silent Amazement
Hold One Wilderness Bead
From waters of Baptism
To dusty dryness
Christ enters
Wilderness
40 days
40 nights
He fasts
Spending time with Father
Battling Satan
We read
How He
Desperately Hungry
Was Enticed
To abuse
Power
To change
Elements
To food
For His own sake
We read
How He
Weakened before God
He was inveigled
To abuse Power
Casting Himself down
To be rescued by Angels
Cheating Death
With no price paid
We read
How He
Humble before God
He was seduced
To abuse power
Taking charge
To control
Earth kingdoms
Imposing His will
Removing ours
All designed
To tear apart
Divine
Human
Jesus
With
Determination
Wisdom
Authority
By Christ
Wields
The Word of God
Overcoming
Satan’s
Temptations
Pause in Silent Gratitude
Hold the Bead Serenity
Blue like water and sky
Think of
His work
His Word
Among us
This bead reminds me
Wandering by Galilee Sea
Gathering disciples
Uneducated men
Turning water
To wine
For feast and celebration
His face turned skywards
Finding Zacheaus in the tree
Understanding
As only the Son of God could do
Bringing forgiveness
Peace
To some
Stirring the establishment
Polarising
Challenging
Shaking them to the core
He brought regional change
With
Equity
Love
Hope
Light
Exposing falsehood
Climbing a mountain
Against a blue sky
He gave the Sermon that remains
A deep
Eternal example
How to Live
Kingdom of God
In Him
We can know
Serenity
Doing God’s work
Fulfilling His Will
Pause in Silent Expectation
Hold the Beads of the Heart
Consider
God’s Love
Expanding
To embrace us
In His Love
Through the Son
Putting aside
Heaven’s Crown
For earthly Humility
Out of Love
To bring us Home
To show us
How
To Live
To Love
To Believe
Beyond evidence
To search
The Heart
For Whispers of Love
To look beyond
The everyday
To see the Eternal
Jesus came
Showing us how
To Love
To Love all
To Love us back
To the Father
The other side of the heart
Gives back
Gives out
Gives All
Gives Life
In love
Freely given
Freely received * Matt 10 v 8
Pause in Silent Adoration
Hold the Bead of Mysteries
Our Age
Of Information
Of Communication
Of Scientific rhetoric
Declares
We know all
We are in control
But…
Oh What Mysteries
Concerning Christ
Such Mysteries
Brought Christ to His knees
In Dark Garden
Weeping
Pleading with God
Enough to sweat blood
Do I really want
To see beyond the veil?
In that garden
At such a time
He prayed
He pleaded
For you
He prayed
He pleaded
For me
And still He intercedes
Such Love is indeed a mystery
Pause in Silent Exultation
Hold the Bead Distorted Dark
The deepest mystery of all
Rejecting
Man of Love
Accusing
Man of Truth
Execution
Guiltless man
Death
By Crucifixion
Nailing Down God
Suffocating
Cruel
Prolonged
Agony
Of Love
Finally
God turns
His face away
Christ takes
All
Upon Himself
World Sin
Distorted
Deformed
Desire
He Hangs Alone
Upon the Cross
With final
Breath breaks free
Yields His Spirit
Finishes it
Once and For All
Darkness gathers
Earth Quakes
Dead walk
Haunting the living
The Veil of Separation
Torn Asunder
Separates no more
Pause in Silent Sorrow
Hold now the Resurrection Bead
Lifeless body
Taken down
Lain with haste
In a borrowed tomb
Sealed away
In Death
In Darkness
He joins me
In Forgiveness
He meets me
In Newness of Life
Life eternal
In what for me
May have been an end
He writes
New Beginnings
Life Renewed
Forgiveness
Understanding
Healing
Delights
Not just on a human physical plane
I am transported
To a realm of dimensions
Beyond my knowledge
This is Resurrection Life
Christ risen from the grave
He overturns
Death
Separation through Sin
He overwhelms
The Evil one
Confounds him with Love
Christ my Saviour
Brings this Life Gift
To me
I am His
Powerless
To gain more
Powerless
To lose it
I surrender
I surrender all
Pause In Silent Surrender
Hold again the God Bead
Jesus Christ
Rose Again
Son of God
Opened the Tomb
Opened eyes
Opened Scriptures
Opened the Way
To Kingdom Life
Commission us
To Raise Others
Jesus Christ
Son of Man
Returned to God
He sends
Comforter
Paraclete Spirit
To teach
To guide
To breathe
His New Life
Into my everyday
Trinity
I am
Grateful beyond measure
I return to God
It was determined from the Beginning
I return to God
Father
Creator
Lover of my soul
And I am Home
In Him
Words and Pictures © Denise Stanford 2012
Within the Vine 
As the song says
“Amazing love, how could it be. That you my King should die for me”
That kind of love. I just can’t get my head around that.
I want to love like that.
Blessings Gail
Oh Gail I agree… but in truth I have trouble enough allowing God to love me like this…
Easter Joy be yours