An excellent prayer I came across

Lainey · May 29, 2006 at 12:00 AM

Mortimer said:

Got one for the Jews?
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Are you Jewish?

Shalom.

Mortimer · May 29, 2006 at 1:49 PM

I'm OK with prayers that invoke a higher power.....But when they get specific about a mortal conduit then that is when you get people killing each other.

Paladin · May 29, 2006 at 2:12 PM

Mortimer said:

I'm OK with prayers that invoke a higher power.....But when they get specific about a mortal conduit then that is when you get people killing each other.
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That's where the following three paragraphs are important. They communicate a belief in God, who is less of a judge and wrath-imposing deity, and more of a compasionate deity, whose primary teaching is love and service:

Sometimes, O God, we conceive of your lordship as regal, powerful, and perhaps a bit distant. We think your sovereign rule involves mostly quashing evil, pursuing justice, and judging sin. Remind us by your Spirit that your lordship is also about being close to people in need. Prod us to recall that in your kingdom, rulership comes through servanthood and that the hands that uphold our world are the pierced and tender hands of Jesus. Help us to remember (so that we may imitate this ourselves) that you see not just evil that needs judging but also suffering that needs ministry.

For you, O Lord, see the tears of the widowed, the sobs that overtake them when the rest of us are not looking. You see the disorientation in which so many people live every day-confusion borne of war, poverty, abuse, or chronic illness. You see the people in dead-end jobs who trudge to work every day filled with so much despair that they can hardly breathe. You see those who search a loved one’s eyes for traces of love but find only an empty stare. As Lord of the earth, you spy every instance of one person cutting another to the quick, every place where a child lives in fear, every bar where someone tries to drown their sorrows.

Yet you are our world’s every hope. You are tender enough to weep with those who weep and yet strong enough to lend comfort and not be consumed with the sorrows that overwhelm us. You are discerning enough to see where our lives run off the rails and yet gracious enough to forgive our foolishness and open again the better path that leads into your kingdom. You are the bright center to all of life, O God! Your lordship helps us glimpse our future with you in your kingdom, even as it points the way home.
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Fred · May 29, 2006 at 2:20 PM

:bananaban

Peeps · May 29, 2006 at 2:52 PM

Fred said:

:bananaban
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no class

QueenCityHillbilly · May 29, 2006 at 6:14 PM

Fred said:

Do you have to remember that by heart or can you read it off cheat-notes?
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Fred, why the attitude? Seriously.

CelticCat · May 30, 2006 at 4:14 PM

It was probably the word "cosmic", it made me giggle.

TimTam · Jun 6, 2006 at 9:53 PM

Mortimer said:

I'm OK with prayers that invoke a higher power.....But when they get specific about a mortal conduit then that is when you get people killing each other.
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i'm just guessing that if you don't indicate which God when you pray...then God doesnt really care.

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CelticCat ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

TimTam El Chupacabra

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