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CTW: come among us…

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L:    With friends and strangers,
with family and neighbors, we gather:
P:    Come among us, Healing God,
with that love which never ends.
L:    With faith reaching out to touch,
with hearts straining to trust, we hope:
P:    Come among us, Friend of the broken,
with your compassion which makes us whole.
L:    With word and wonder,
with silence and song, we wait:
P:    Come among us, Dryer of our tears,
to lift us to our feet to follow you.

Submitted by Rev. Thom Shuman, author of Lectionary Liturgies.

confession: we plan too much

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God, we admit we have not had the serenity to accept the things that cannot be changed, we have been afraid to change the things which should be changed, and we have not had the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. We attempt to plan our entire lives before we’re eighteen, we do not live in the moment. We distrust that You will make all things right, because of this, we do not surrender to Your will.  For this we ask your forgiveness and your mercy.

Silent Prayers

Our lives are in your hands, O God. Amen.

Submitted by Rev. Shannon Meacham, Ashland Presbyterian Church.

CTW: the day, and the church, the Lord has made

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One:      This is the day the Lord has made,

let us rejoice and be glad in it!

All:      We come with awe and praise, hearts lifted high!

      Some of us come with doubt and fear, hearts troubled.

One:      This is the church the Lord has made,

the people God created for this place and this time.

All:      We come, all of us, to hear God’s word,

      know Christ’s presence,

      and follow the Spirit wherever she may lead.

One:      Come, let us worship the Living God,

who calls us together.

Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church, Crystal Lake IL.

confession: one-way conversations

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God, you call to us, but often we do not listen.

We are so busy speaking, we forget that conversations go two ways.

We are so busy looking for what we want, we forget to look for what you want.

Quiet our fear, our greed, and even our uncertainty,

that we may seek you, and hear you, and know you.

Forgive us our one-way conversations, our short-sighted solutions, our narrow fields of vision.

When we look only for answers, sit beside us as a friend in the questions.

When we look only for our desires, walk with us through your beautiful yet broken world.

When we look only for our own ways, open our eyes to your way,

and bring us to true life with you, today and every day.

We pray in the name of the One who lives and breathes among and within us. Amen.

 

Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church, Crystal Lake IL.

post-communion prayer: God of the inside & the outside

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God: You are God indeed, the God of all. You are God of our comings and goings and strivings, and you are God of all that we cannot master or manage, force or control. You are God of our hopes and dreams, our scheming and our plans, but you are also God of all we attempt to wall out, to wall in, to force-feed or resuscitate or kill, but which bleeds through and around anyway. You are Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, the front and the tain of the mirror. We encounter you, God, broken and scattered, in the bread and the wine, both without and within, inside the margins and outside of them too, God in death and loss but also God of new life and joys beyond death and loss. In receiving these gifts may we learn to be, like these wide-scattered gifts, nimble navigators of boundaries and barriers, both those which wall up life and those which nourish and sustain life. We ask this in your name, the loving, the just, the merciful, the one God everlasting, in Jesus the Christ, and in the overflowing promiscuous ecstasy of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Submitted by Brian Cubbage, member and elder at Douglass Boulevard Christian Church (Louisville, KY) and he blogs at bcubbage.wordpress.com.