It's Sunday and that means: pray time on the blog.
Oh God, God of blogs not just of blogs but of all things visible and invisible, on and off the internet, it is wise of us to propitiate you with as much prayer as we can make time to make; prayer not only of supplication and of petition, but also of pure, sincere, sweet, gratitude - prayer of "thanks, God! with no thought of reward," and a consequential lightening of our hearts. As we lift up our hearts to you, as we lay our burdens upon thee, God, please take up our burdens with joy and a light yet infinite heart, knowing that it is with love that we depend on your strength, even as it is with your strength that ultimately, we all depend on your love - and on the sure and certain knowledge that you know all things, and can see all ends, and that you ain't telling. Therefore let us take a moment to pray, God, to you, for you to put a little extra thought into it as you gaze into the future, and maybe knock things into shape a bit for us before they roll over us, here in the present, where we live and pray.
In your name we pray, whatever that name may be, and so it is with confidence in that name and in your name, and in your love and justice and mercy and compassion and kindness and power and glory and love, infinite love - seasoned with a hint of wrath and just judgment, to add a certain piquancy to it perhaps - that we all lie gathered here in your name, awaiting the outcome of whatever it is you see fit to rain gently down upon us. Blessings, we naively expect!
Grant us patience. Grant us kind lovingness, each unto each. Grant us hot sex between previously almost estranged spouses. Grant us a waking up to the beauty we fell asleep to. Unblind our eyes to the love of others, to your love as you gaze on them and to your love that shines out from them - to the good in all people that sometimes...I fear only you can see. Unblind our eyes. If not the sight itself, at least grant us the wish to see the good. Grant us peace in the Middle East, and human rights for all especially those in China and Tibet who really have nothing to do with that whole argument and should really know better (via enlightenment) and for whom we now pray.
Let us bow our heads, and ponder upon it for a moment.
Okay. Done!
Oh God, God of blogs not just of blogs but of all things visible and invisible, on and off the internet, it is wise of us to propitiate you with as much prayer as we can make time to make; prayer not only of supplication and of petition, but also of pure, sincere, sweet, gratitude - prayer of "thanks, God! with no thought of reward," and a consequential lightening of our hearts. As we lift up our hearts to you, as we lay our burdens upon thee, God, please take up our burdens with joy and a light yet infinite heart, knowing that it is with love that we depend on your strength, even as it is with your strength that ultimately, we all depend on your love - and on the sure and certain knowledge that you know all things, and can see all ends, and that you ain't telling. Therefore let us take a moment to pray, God, to you, for you to put a little extra thought into it as you gaze into the future, and maybe knock things into shape a bit for us before they roll over us, here in the present, where we live and pray.
In your name we pray, whatever that name may be, and so it is with confidence in that name and in your name, and in your love and justice and mercy and compassion and kindness and power and glory and love, infinite love - seasoned with a hint of wrath and just judgment, to add a certain piquancy to it perhaps - that we all lie gathered here in your name, awaiting the outcome of whatever it is you see fit to rain gently down upon us. Blessings, we naively expect!
Grant us patience. Grant us kind lovingness, each unto each. Grant us hot sex between previously almost estranged spouses. Grant us a waking up to the beauty we fell asleep to. Unblind our eyes to the love of others, to your love as you gaze on them and to your love that shines out from them - to the good in all people that sometimes...I fear only you can see. Unblind our eyes. If not the sight itself, at least grant us the wish to see the good. Grant us peace in the Middle East, and human rights for all especially those in China and Tibet who really have nothing to do with that whole argument and should really know better (via enlightenment) and for whom we now pray.
Let us bow our heads, and ponder upon it for a moment.
Okay. Done!
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