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PRAY NOW: TODAY'S PRAYER
Perceived - Open / Closed
Close your heart to every love but mine . . . love is as powerful as death, passion
is as strong as death itself.
Prayer
An awakening to possibility.
A noticing of another.
An impulse to give and share and enjoy . . .
God you gave human hearts
to open and swell and surge
with powerful love.
So special the sharing . . .
So amazing the feeling . . ..
So unspoken the trusting . . .
So all-consuming the love that
Is too strong, too much.
God you gave human hearts
to open and swell and surge
with powerful love
and we close and restrict and limit
and condition and suppress and protect
our hearts that have been hurt.
So guarded the sharing . . .
So painful the feeling . . .
So broken the trusting . . .
So devastating the love that
Is as powerful as death.
Easter God,
Bring healing and hope
Resurrection and restoration
to tightly closed hearts today.
Readings
Luke 19:18-30 The rich ruler
John 21:15-19 Do you love me?
Prayer activity
Sit quietly for a while. Become aware of your breathing. Listen to and feel each
breath, each heartbeat. Love and oxygen are both essential to life, similar in many
ways but not the same. As you breathe easily and peacefully, think about the areas of
your life where you love with ease and calm and rejoice for these times. Remember
now, people and places where love is awkward and often a closed possibility, pray
about these situations and ask God how things might shift.
Prayer for the Church
Those who steward the Church's financial resources and recall its members to the
meaning of Christian giving
especially
the Stewardship and Finance and the General Treasurer's Department.
Blessing
Open are the gifts of God,
Gifts of love to mind and sense;
Hidden is love's agony,
Love’s endeavour, love’s expense.
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