Prayer for the Day
A prayer for encouragement
Come, Holy Spirit. Come near to us and bless our prayer. Refresh, renew and fill us that we might receive our calling anew. Teach us patience that we might reflect your patient love as we seek to sing a new song so that in all things we might give glory to God, through Christ and in the power of the Spirit. Encourage us and fill us with hope for the future that with warmed hearts, fresh harmonies and renewed hands and voices we might pour ourselves out in love for others as you have poured out your love for us in Christ. Come, Holy Spirit. Come, Lord, come.
Alternative Prayer for the Day
A prayer commending all to God
We commend to you, O Lord, our waking and our sleeping, our going out and our coming in, our souls and our bodies, our words and our deeds, our life and our death, our household and our companions, our world and our neighbours.
A prayer that God may lead us in God's dance
Author of life divine,
whose song unleashes beauty,
creating wonder and inspiring awe.
You call our voices out,
join them in a renewing melody which is older than time.
You lead us, then move us,
in a dance lost in wonder, love, and praise.
In such moments, our humanity reverberates with grace and we know ourselves beloved. Amen.
Kerry Tankard, Chair, Yorkshire West District