Today is Thursday the 8th of February in the fifth week of ordinary time.

Leslie Jordan with the Portis Gate sings,

Good to me.

Can you let these words echo within you

as you begin to pray today? today.

I can taste the sweetness of your mercy but I feel the sting of grief still in my chest.

Not sure I've known the one without the other.

I will cling to the belief I know the best.

You have been you will be

You are so good to me.

I reach out my head and hope you'll hold on. I reach out my head and hopes you hold on.

Time and time again find empty space.

So I will keep them open though they're shaking

and call to mind the time I felt the grip of grace.

You have been you will be

You are still here with me

You are still here with me

You have been, you will be.

You are still here with me.

Ooh. Oh, oh'll be. Today's reading is from the Gospel of Mark.

From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and didn't want anyone to know he was there, but he couldn't escape notice, and a woman whose little daughter had

an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet.

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