PRAYER
FOR AND ASSURANCE OF GRACE
Source
of life, you offer us roots that will feed and sustain us.
Sometimes
we cling to those roots.
Sometimes
we insist on relying on our own roots, our own strength, our own
sources of sustenance.
In
Jesus, the True Vine you invite us to remain connected to You and to
each other,
spreading
as branches of the tree of Love, spreading Love and hope into the
corners and crevices of life.
Sometimes
we feel disconnected, cut off from the vine, isolated from those
things that sustain us.
Sometimes
we decide we don’t need the vine, and then wonder why our leaves
droop and we start to wither.
God
of life in abundance, God who calls us to be fruitful branches, when
we cut ourselves away from the vine, when we insist on doing things
on our own, when we resist your attempts to prune and guide us for
better growth:
forgive
our headstrong natures, show us how to reconnect, renew our lives to
help us bloom.
...time
of silent prayer...
Our
faith story begins and ends in a garden. The God who creates and
re-creates us is a gardener, watering and weeding and pruning to give
growth. This same God calls us to be connected and rooted in the soil
of love so that we can grow and be fruitful. In Christ God forgives
us and helps our branches renew our connection to the vine. God helps
us grow to full flower, rooted in God’s love. This is Good News!
Thanks
be to God! Hallelujah!
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