PRAYER FOR AND ASSURANCE OF GRACE
Guiding
God, you lead us into the wilderness, with a promise of new life on
the other side.
And
to be honest we are not always willing to go.
We
mourn for what we leave behind, what we have lost.
We
want to go back to the comfortable, the known, the familiar.
Gracious
God, in this COVID-tide season,
we
carry grief and anxiety, we wish we we could go back to a more
comfortable place.
Feed
and sustain us in our desert time, we pray.
Hear
our cries and share our grief.
Then
when
the
time comes lead us into a
future with
a mix of familiar and new ways of being
Gracious
God, when we chafe against the changes and chances of life,
strengthen
us, embolden us, and forgive our doubting that this is the path of
promise.
...time
of silent prayer...
In
Grace God leads us into the wilderness, in Grace God sustains us in
the wilderness, with Grace God hears our griefs and complaints and
anxieties in the wilderness.. Still God leads us into the future,
sharing a promise of life renewed.
Thanks
be to God! Amen.
COMMISSIONING:
As
our worship concludes, we go out into the world to live and love and
serve.
We
carry with us our hopes for the future, but also our grief for what
we have lost.
In
the midst of hope and fear and grief and possibilities we meet God,
the
one who continues to sustain us, the one who feeds with us in the
desert.
And
so we can share the promise that there is hope beyond the grief, even
if we can’t go back to where we once were.
Thanks
be to God who leads and sustains us into a new way of being.
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