In the bible readings appointed for Sunday, we read of the grief of the widows at the death of Tabitha, we also read in Revelation of the care and gratitude of the multitude who had come through “great ordeal.” In a week of much ordeal we realize how much we have to be grateful for and how much need there for the church to be a Body of Healing, of Comfort, of Transformation. Here is the prayer offered by Grace McKenzie in our worship. May it be a blessing all through the week.
Too often stand we in the presence of death. To whom can we turn? Where can we lay our grief, and to whom can we show the evidence of lives left in the wake of our trailing tears? Only to you, Lord. For all those falling toward despair, snatch back their hope and whisper “life” in their struggle. For this world so wracked with pain and the violence born of brokenness, send your prophets, both the prosaic and the prescient, to recall your people and all creation to new living, new life. However blows are dealt, may our lives never be defined by destruction, but only by the living current of grace flowing from the streams of your eternal life. We are so grateful, Lord; in our sorrows, in our hopes and in the pain, still we are so grateful and so we beg to be sent with words of life into your holy, hurting world. –written by Kent Gilbert
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