April 30, 2011

Love is so often spoken about in our society, Lord,

But it is not very often lived through our actions.

Grant that we may be motivated not by greed or selfish desires,

But by love.

Lord, you are the source of all goodness and the source of all love.

Rain love on us so freely

That we have no opportunity to be bathed in anything else.

Amen.

April 29, 2011

Let me sing to you, O God, because you are faithful.

You have broken the bars of death,

And you have offered us the chance to taste paradise.

And that offer never expires

We never run out of days to sing to you,

We never run out of praises to give to you.

And we live peacefully with you there all the days of our lives.

Lord God, since we will share eternity singing your praises,

I want to start right now, singing to you

And about you for the world to know

The joy I have found.

Amen.

April 28, 2011

Hear our prayers, O God,

For your love for your people

Has no equal in the universe.

Look upon your servants and see how they hurt.

See their pain, and ease it.

Every person on this globe suffers with something.

When we look at others, we so often fail to see their pain,

Sometimes for lack of trying,

But just as often because our own griefs deny us clear vision.

But you, O Lord, have perfect vision

That sees into the hearts of humans

And understands their every woe.

Comfort them.

Comfort us.

Amen.

April 27, 2011

Let your mercy flow like rivers.

Let it soak the land.

Let your grace rain down waters of redemption

To this barren ground on which we live

That love would grow and bloom

As beautiful buds bloom in the spring.

And fill the air with the sweet fragrances of compassion.

Amen.

April 26, 2011

When will humans learn?

When will we stop hating?

When will we stop judging others?

When will we realize that it is not a righteous prayer to wish others harm?

When will we get it?

Lord, you sent your own Son

To testify to the power of love.

But the power of this world is soaked in blood.

The power of this world is not the power of overcoming evil,

It is the power of seeing who has the capacity to do more evil to others.

That is usually the victor in strife on earth.

Lord God, let your kindom come to earth as it already is in heaven,

That we might learn to love

Learn to heal

Learn to teach and guide

Or be taught and guided,

So that your children can live in harmony.

Amen.

April 25, 2011

Walk with me, this day, Lord.

Some days my steps are uncertain.

I need your strength to guide me.

Some days my steps are too quick,

And I get ahead of myself.

I need your willful resistance so I can reach the goal at the right time.

Sometimes my steps take me off course,

Veering into places that I do not belong, and where you do not want me to go.

I need your corrective hand to steer me on the right path.

Above all, Lord God, I need you to walk with me

So that I can take the steps you would have me take.

Amen.

April 24, 2011

All our possessions,

What are they in the infinity of the universe?

Even our selves,

What are individuals in light of all the massive vastness of the cosmos?

How can we be what you have called us to be, people of substance,

Except by simply giving away the little we have.

Many may be remembered for their great wealth,

But few will be remembered better

Than for the wealth great or small

That they were willing to give away

For love of others.

May we be ones who give in love.

Amen.