conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

tuesday evening post

Here is something for Tuesday, an evening prayer, really. I assume I will not post on the actual Tuesday, so I am playing with the time stamp on my blog.

Pray for me, a sinner.

You are behind me and before me O God You lay your hand upon me (Ps. 139.5)

Be still and aware of God's presense within and around.

Opening Prayer and Thanksgiving

As I utter these prayers
from my mouth, O God,
In my soul may I feel your presence.
The knee that is stiff
O healer make pliant
The heart that is hard
make warm beneath your wing
The wound that is giving me pain,
O best of healers, make whole
And may my hopes and my fears
Find a listening place with you.

Scripture: Mark 4:1-9

Again he began to teach beside the lake. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the lake on the land. He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: �Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil. And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since it had no root, it withered away. Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.� And he said, �Let anyone with ears to hear listen!�

Thank you, God, for this day. This is my birthday and in spite of some of my best efforts, I am still here to tell the tale. Bless my parents. My father has given me his personality...for better or worse. My mother her compassion. My stepfather has given me hope. My stepmother wisdom and courage. I am the product of many hands, dear Lord. It is my prayer that this will always be. Bless those hands, those of my friends and family. I am the work of your hands. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. This is your gift to me. Redeem my life, O Christ. In you may I take heart, preaching truth to the world. Breathe through me, O Spirit, that your love may heal the world through me. Heal me from pride and all infirmity.

Intercessions

O God of the stars
and the night skies
May your light be coming through
thinck clouds this night
On me and on everyone
coming through dark tears
On each one in need
and in suffering.

Bring health to the homeless. Grant us the courage to give them what we have too much of. Heal those who need your touch, God. Be with Cameron. He has a fever. Be with his mother, Susan, who will give birth any day now.

Be with the members of the ordination committee, that they may be witnesses to your truth and honesty. Help us all to discern your will. Help me to hear your word in their's.

Closing Prayer

Christ stand before me
and peace in his mind.
Sleep, O sleep
in the calm of all calm
Sleep, O sleep
in the love of all loves
Sleep I this night
in the God of all life.

Posted by tripp at January 27, 2004 12:00 PM