LORD of might and mercy …
LORD of cross and sorrow …
LORD of victory and hope eternal,
We seek you in the nooks and crannies of our life … we look for your in Word and Wisdom … we search our memories and plumb our hopes …
Ever-grateful that you have looked for us - first of all … that you, O God, have come to us, a thousand times over … your hand is upon us … your love guides and guards our journey through time, from here to eternity.
You are the God of our journey, the God who seeks the lost, the God who finds and saves …
You make the journey, to be with us:
In spirit and purpose, lest in our loneliness, we despair …
In our wandering, we lose our way …
In our sorrows, we lose our hope …
In our sin, forfeit all grace …
You preserve us in our comings and our goings.
You anchor our life…
You are the God who crosses every boundary and moves through time and space, to be with your creation … all its creatures, great and small.
To the Garden you came, in the cool of the day …
Upon the Mountain you stood, to write the Commandments …
In Bethlehem’s cradle, born of sweet Mary …
Along Jerusalem’s crowed streets, you carried the bloody cross.
Time and again, you have found us … and in finding us, dear God, we - find - you.
With gratitude and hope, we give to you our loved ones … we pray for their well-being … their safety, in body and soul …
We pray for our parents and grandparents, our sons and daughters … all the networks of love, and family, and community that give us life, so many countless souls who’ve made the journey with us, who still walk beside us, to whom we owe a debt of gratitude.
We pray for the children of the world … may nations be moved to act with justice … may multi-national corporations be moved to act with wisdom … may our leaders seek peace, may they strive for the best ideas, may they reach upward for justice, and outward with compassion … may our better angels prevail in all matters of state and religion … that the children of the world might play in peace … dear God … dear God we pray:
In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray, saying:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
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