Prayer & Praise
In our secret yearnings we wait for your coming, and in our grinding despair we doubt that you will.
And in this privileged place we are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do we and by those who despair more deeply than do we.
Look upon your church and its pastors in this season of hope which runs so quickly to fatigue and this season of yearning which becomes so easily quarrelsome.
Give us the grace and the impatience to wait for your coming to the bottom of our toes, to the edges of our finger tips.
We do not want our several worlds to end.
Come in your power and come in your weakness in any case and make all things new.
Amen.
Walter Brueggemann. Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: The Prayers of Walter Brueggemann (p. 148). Kindle Edition.
Amen. Praying for the pastors and their families. Praying for hurting, broken hearts that feel their faith fading away. Lord, have mercy upon us all. Come, Lord Jesus, come.
Psalm 27:13
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Psalm 142:5
I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Psalm 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 23:1
The Lord is my shepherd…
Surfer man51. Amen.
Pray for Michael today!