Prayer for Openess

A Prayer for Openness to God’s Creative Guidance

God of passionate patience and lively waiting, in whatever way you choose,

be with us in our eagerness and in our uneasiness

as we balance on the edge of a newness disguised as familiar,

a mystery lurking in the taken-for-granted,

a discovery waiting in the common,

a love fevering to be expressed,

a hope waiting to be born out of pain,

and the wonder of it all as it hushes our hearts and disquiets our certainties.

God, without you we are truly scared stiff of making mistakes,

of being ridiculed or rejected

or missing out in our always fumbling uncertainties,

So we pray that your Spirit will hover over us to enable us to separate, with you,

the light from the darkness in the change that seeks to shape us,

and which we seek creatively to shape.

We pray that your Spirit lift us and encourage us

to keep getting up and going on,

no matter how many times we have tripped up and fallen crying down.

We pray that your Spirit empower us to crack the smothering crust of deadening habits and

goad us to set out after fresh dreams.

We pray that your Spirit liberate and lead us

in laboring for healing for the broken, justice for the exploited,

chances for the oppressed, peace for the violated and violent of the earth.

So move in and among us that we may grow in your Spirit,

rejoice in your kingdom, and live with passion this amazing life that,

by your grace, is in us and that we are gratefully in. Amen

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