Opening
PRAYER
Source
of life and love, Creator God;
we
open our hearts and minds and lives to your presence.
Teacher
and Guide, God in human form, known in Christ;
we
come as those who try to follow the path you set for us.
Always
present with us, giving hope, Spirit God;
we
come to be filled with You, refreshed to live out our faith every
day.
As
those who bear Christ’s name we pray together the words he taught
his friends...
PRAYER
FOR AND ASSURANCE OF GRACE
God
of relationship, you call us to share our lives with you.
And
we do. Or we want to, when we aren’t too busy to pray.
God
of relationship, you ask us to listen for your voice.
Which
sounds great, but we like to talk.
God
of relationship, you encourage us to trust that you answer.
And
we often wonder what our prayers accomplish, or we don’t like the
answer, or we want to stay in control,
God
of Grace, help us know that you are there, give us the confidence to
trust in you, hear our prayers when they are wordy and when they are
silent.
...time
of silence...
We
offer up our prayers.. When they are selfless and when they are
selfish, when we listen and when we only talk, when we see results
and when we wonder if it was all worth it we offer up our prayers..
And always God is there, hearing, loving, responding.
Thanks
be to God. Amen.
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