12.04.09
Advent Prayer from Walter Brueggemann
Pray with longing for a better world and the arrival of the Kingdom of God.
In our secret yearnings
we wait for your coming,
and in our grinding despair
we doubt that you will.
And in this privileged place
we are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do we
and by those who despair more deeply than do we.
Look upon your church and its pastors
in this season of hope
which runs so quickly to fatigue
and in this season of yearning
which becomes so easily quarrelsome.
Give us the grace and the impatience
to wait for your coming to the bottom of our toes,
to the edges of our fingertips.
We do not want our several worlds to end.
Come in your power
and come in your weakness
in any case
and make all things new.
Amen.
Walter Brueggeman
Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
12.02.09
For the poor
Jesus, you were anointed to preach good news to the poor.
Why is the message we bring in your name not better news to those who need it?
Anoint our lives and words to become Good News today!
Amen.
12.01.09
Remembering those with HIV/AIDS
Holy Spirit-
There are so many who are sick, dying, and suffering today
from this terrible virus.
We ask you to bring healing and comfort.
We ask that you fix the systems that aren’t helping the way they should.
We ask that you open our hearts, filling them with compassion and a willingness to do something for those in need.
Amen.
11.27.09
Prayer for Welcoming Advent
Lord God, only you can see into my heart and know that under all the busy-ness of my life, there is a deep longing to make this Advent one that welcomes you more deeply into my own life.
My heart desires the warmth of your love and my mind searches for your Light in the midst of the darkness.
Help me to be a peacemaker this Advent and to give special love to those who disagree with me. Give me the strength and courage to forgive those who have hurt me. Help me to free my heart from the prison of my anger and hurt.
Taken from “One Prayer a Day for Advent”
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Advent/Daily-prayers.html
11.26.09
Love Through Me
Love through me, love of God,
There is no love in me,
O fire of love, light thou the love
That burns perpetually.
Amy W Carmichael, “Love Through Me” Toward Jerusalem (London: S.P.C.K., 1950)11.24.09
Open my Ears
Holy Spirit
Open my ears to hear what you hear
and change my heart today.
Amen.
11.20.09
Thanksgiving Prayer
Gracious and generous God we give you thanks
For the gift of life for we are made in your image,
We think of all those in whom your divine image is still distorted
We pray for your mercy and love to rest upon them
God in your mercy be with them
Caring and providing God we give you thanks
For our homes that shelter and protect us,
We think of those without shelter and water and protection today
We pray for your provision to be poured out upon them
God in your mercy be with them
Abundant and giving God we give you thanks
For our food that nourishes and strengthens us,
We thing of those without food and nourishment today
We pray that you will feed them with the bread of life
God in your mercy be with them
Loving and compassionate God we give you thanks
For our friends and family who love and comfort us in times of need
We think of those who are alone and feel abandoned
God comfort and surround them that they may sense your presence
God in your mercy be with them
Gracious and generous God
We remember all the gifts you have given us,
We remember how lavishly you have provided,
We remember how lovingly you have cared,
We remember especially that greatest gift of all,
Jesus Christ our Saviour,
And we give you thanks.
Amen
Written by Christine Sine on GodSpace.
For entire Thanksgiving liturgy:
http://godspace.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/a-thanksgiving-prayer/
