Category: Prayer
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My Redemption Psalm*
How can I see what You see, or hear what You hear? My eyes are clouded with smoke rising from the hot embers of hate, and my ears are muffled with a cacophony of voices from this diseased place! Worse still, I stare into the smoke, expecting love; and I listen to the noise, desiring…
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Prayer for Humanity
Dear God: As I look back over this year and all the disappointments, cancellations, sickness and death, I see where my attachments to worldly things and outcomes have only served to separate me from You and from others. So, today God, I pray for all of humanity. As we await the dawn of this new…
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Call Me Hagar
You have heard my cry. You have seen my distress. You have known my strife. In all this, You have used my tears for cleansing; You have soothed my distress through healing; You have reformed my strife with harmony. My God who sees me* – I live in the Light of Your eyes, and I…
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Prayer for Peace
Dear God: This morning, I come to You with a deep yearning for peace – peace of mind, peace in my heart, peace that radiates from my soul. As the noise of this society and its voices have increased with clanging and clamoring and blaring confusion, this yearning becomes more intensely felt. I tear my…
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The Stable of My Heart
May the stable of my heart be filled always with the eternal light of Your Love. May I welcome all – weary and exuberant powerful and destitute disgraced and seeking – into the grace-filled compassion of its Presence. For it is only by the mercy of this gift that lies within that the stable of…
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Prayer for Trust in the Light
Dear God: I pray that You will fill my heart and mind with trust in Your protection. Remind me, as I sit in worry and fear while this world crumbles to pieces around me, that Your arms are surrounding me. Remind me that the hatred and uncertainty of this world and its people cannot harm…
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Prayer for Community Group
O great Creator, we come to you today a family of cause, rather than blood. We know that in this fact alone our community is fragile, for blood unites for all of eternity, while cause is often frayed and split and broken by the deceit of the small self. In this knowledge, we extend to…
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Prayer for Living Grace
Dear God: I ask today that You fill me with Your wisdom, for my mind alone cannot reconcile this world around me. I ask today that you fill me also with Your mercy, for my heart alone cannot love my brothers and sisters living in their humanity. I have faith in Your guidance, and I…
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Prayer for Unity in Community
Dear God: I pray today for unity, as in the feeling of, and security in Your community. I read about Your first disciples and I know that they did not agree with each other on everything, and in fact, some did not even like each other. Yet, they set aside their differences in order to…
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Ode to Psalm 89
Ever faithful, showering grace, O my Lord, your merciful ways have anointed this land, these children, this place. And yet we stray, wandering away from righteousness holding fast to worldly things flailing about in the belly of this whale. When will you redeem us, my Lord? When will your mighty armies set us free once…