Friday, January 31, 2025

Even before we are awake, you come to us. You call us into your sacred prayer space, revealing your love for us. You tell us your plans, but they seem like such a stretch for us. We are filled with doubts. Life-giving Spirit surrounds us. She places your holy kiss on our mouths. You bless us with new words and new possibilities.

Thank you, Loving God, for the Spirit-filled people you send to us to bring us good news, heal broken hearts, and who speak freedom and who remind us we are; your Beloved. We join with them, turning our sorrow into joyful songs of praise because you are with us. Thank you for removing our shame and disgrace. We relish in our inheritance and double portions. You fill us to the brim.

You make all things perfect in your time. Give us patience to wait for your message and wisdom to wait on you alone. Give us discernment to not expect others to do what only you can do for us.

Today, we invite you to reread, rest, and reflect on the prayers of the past week.

Lectionary Readings for Today: Weekly Review

Psalm 29
Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
1 Corinthians 2:11-16

We gather before your Water Gate. We come together as one to hear your teachings, spoken through your word, spiritual guides and Elders. We enter your sacred prayer space in our human condition. But you shower us with blessings and encourage us to rejoice.

You beckon us to come away with you. Give us feet ready to run with you. Comfort and assure us as we lay in your presence, in your vast and bountiful meadows. We want for nothing, for you are with us.