Saturday, November 16, 2024

Blessed by your name, Yahweh. In our bareness and emptiness, you bless us with your lovingkindness and provisions. We place our hope in you and look for your protection to supply our every need.

We journey with you along your Ancient Path from Jericho into the countryside. We, who were once blind, cried out to you from the ditches. You compassionately healed us. Now, we follow you and invite others to join us.

We enter your sacred prayer space to seek your peaceful assurance. Do we live lives worthy of being carried by the angels to your side when we breathe our final breath? We think of our past, full of self-disappointment, and cry out to you. You draw close; Life-giving Spirit embraces us, pressing her lips to our ears.

We gather as faithful followers to hear your teachings and learn from you. We enter your sacred prayer space, amazed and concerned about how we can measure up to your expectations, and enter your kingdom. You reassure us that you have already chosen us as your own and that your desire for us is to fall in love with who you created us to be.

You have called each of us to be your servants and high priests to your communities. We enter your sacred prayer space feeling unworthy by human standards. But your ways are perfect. You receive us and call us your worthy children.

Loving Yahweh, we praise you. Thank you for your favour and grace you bestow on us. There is no one like you. You are a prayer-answering God. We put our hope in you and you never disappoint us. You look upon us with loving eyes, reaching out for us and raising us up.