We pray, O God;
Putting into words our hopes and our fears and then pushing them outward;
Upward, into that great Mystery;
Somewhere towards You.
We pray for healing and for help; for strength and for courage.
We pray for peace for ourselves and peace for all.
We pray with our words, O God,And sometimes with our tears.
What we don’t always do when we pray is listen.
For it we did we might hear our words;
Now Your words, O God;
Prayed back towards us.
Help us, O God, we pray and listening we hear…
Be help.
Heal us, O God…
Be healing.
We pray for hope…
Be hope.
We pray for strength…
Be strength.
We pray for peace…
Be peace.
And, so it is…
And, so we pray…
With each other and for each other;
To God and with God;
For all whom we have named;
And all that we have named;
And all that we would name in this moment, right now;
With our words, with our thoughts, with our hopes with our tears:
And, having prayed;
We listen, too:
For God’s prayer prayed back towards us.
Amen.
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