"Prayers of the Community"

A Prayer by Allan McLean
September 13th, 2009

 

Will you join me as we enter in prayer,

 

"Holy, Holy, Holy" One – Bringer of Light and Life from one Breath fourteen billion light years away – Whisperer of Wisdom into each particle of our Being …we still now, once again into the Sacred You.

 

O Sophia, image of God's Wisdom, Mirror into our Souls of God's Power.  Help us sustain the joy of wisdom in our lives.  May we, increasingly, surrender to You – less thinking as Humans think; more acting into Your Wisdom.

 

O Jesus the Christ, have mercy on us, walk with us as we journey from our fear intoYour Love.  May we lose our 'selves', our 'egos' in that Love and carry it out into this wounded planet.

 

And so, we hold out to you all the raw bleeding wounds of Earth:  Iraq, Somalia, HIV/AIDs and starvation in Africa and elsewhere;  the plague of war and hatred, untended sickness, soul-searing poverty, our own Downtown Eastside and Indian Reserves throughout this country; the ecological desolation of our very planet;
We hold all this out to You and ask in return, your presence now in leading us to lose our lives, as we are called to heal these wounds…

 

O Holy One, we breathe out to You and into Your Breath, our prayers for those individuals we name now:  Ruby Dumaresq, recuperating at Holy Family Hospital, Lidja Cowan, whose health issues leave her house-bound and all those others known to our hearts, who suffer from disease, addiction, mental illness, loss and other jarring life changes, family dischord and grief.

 

All those names we breathe now into Your Presence….

 

And, Spirit of God, who sings and dances us into Joy – thank You.  Thank You for Wisdom, the joy of service, of family, of loved ones, the fellowship of this community.  Thank You for these breathtaking mornings – the light, mellower now, that plays through leaves and stunningly on flowers, pellucid waters, and all this City's sea-born and mountain-jewelled beauty.  Thank you especially for our capacity to see, to change, to worship, to grow increasingly heart-bound by your wisdom.

 

And now, as we move in gentle wisdom and the company of Jesus, into the week ahead, will you join me in the Prayer He taught us:

 

Loving God, in Whom is 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 trespasses

As we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil.

For thine is the Kingdom

The Power

And the Glory

Forever and ever,

Amen.