Crafted Prayers - In light of our Holiday to the East Coast - 2019


Father, You are Love

You alone are One who dwells in Love on heavens utmost height

You alone are One who remains in Love in unapproachable light

You alone are One who reigns in Love with imperishable might

Yet, as of late, I have found as well

You dwell by Your Love in the deepest earthy reaches of the Mammoth Cave as much as the highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains

And everywhere in between.

You remain by Your Love on the vacant battlefields of Gettysburg as much as on the forgotten battlefields of Europe and Southeast Asia

And everywhere in between.

You reign by Your Love in the stone halls on Pennsylvania Avenue as much as in the wooded hollows of the Appalachian Trail. 

And everywhere in between.

As of late I have found, again

You are the One true God who is everywhere present and powerful and awesome and good

Because You are the One true God who is in very essence Love.

Father, would You be to us this morning, these realities I have found again, as of late, to be true?

Would You be present and powerful and awesome and good to us this morning as we have gathered in this miniature earthly space we call our church?

Would You reveal Yourself to us, Your Church, to be in essence Love?

And may we be so bold as to ask – humbly of course – ask that you share Your Love with us, and in us, and even – in spite of our fearfulness – share Your Love through us?

For we are too often fearful people.  And there is no fear in Love.  But rather perfect Love – Your Love – casts out fear altogether.  And that Love, that perfect Love, is the Love we hope to both receive and give away to those we want to more perfectly Love.

And we ask these things in the perfect and loving name of Jesus Christ Your Son.  Amen.




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