<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div><font size="3">Collect for Proper 18:</font></div><div><font size="3"><br /></font></div><div><font size="3">Let us pray:</font></div><div><font size="3"><br /></font></div><div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">Priceless God,</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">you offer us a life</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">free of those burdens that are full of self.</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">There is a price tag on life</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">when we follow your son.</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">Give us courage to consider the cost,</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">courage to abandon ego-possessions.</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord, </font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, </font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">one God for ever and ever. Amen</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">For reflection and haiku on proper 18 go to > </font><a href="http://preachingtip.com/preaching-tip-of-the-week/"><font size="3">http://preachingtip.com/preaching-tip-of-the-week/</font></a></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">Bob Eldan</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">Lander, Wyoming</font></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;"><font size="3">USA</font></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></body></html>