A prayer that we surrender to God's will
All our powers we surrender to you, O God, and our whole will to yours. All our designs we submit to your design and all our purposes to yours. Amen.
A prayer that God might open our eyes
God in hiding, waiting in the dark, blowing over the formless void, speak a word of light and life, we pray, and make something out of this nothing once again.
God hidden in plain sight, divine treasure to be found in seeds and soils, yeast and dough, birds and trees, hunger and thirst, enemy and neighbour, bread and wine, open our eyes, give sight to our blindness and make us to see you once again.
God hiding in me like water, underground rising, seeping out, bursting out, pouring out, come Holy Spirit come and make me full to overflowing once again.
A prayer for the reign of Christ
Come and reign, O Christ, in our home and its life; in our church and its mission; in our nation and its politics; in our world and its affairs. Come, O Christ. Come and reign.
Mary Sumner (1828-1921)
Saturday 19 September 2009
"Keep the commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ." (v14)
1 Timothy 6:13-16