Eternal God, Our Father, sweep over us in this moment with a sense of your nearness to each one as we bow in prayer. Shut out the clamorous voice of the world, our plans for the remainder of the day and things which face us tomorrow. Just let us now, free from care and free from labor, commune with you and get our lives straightened out.
Sweep over us, O Lord, with the realization of our mortality not to brood over death and the limitations of life but to discover how to begin to live life eternally now. For however long we live, our life is over like a sigh. Jesus knew He had come from God and was going to God. Help us to know it too and to get direction for what we do with our lives from this realization...what we do with our time, our talents, our money.
We thank you today, dear Lord, for the wonders and the joys of life. We are sorry for what we have done to the earth and to our physical bodies and to our fellow man to dull our sense of you and the vision of a wonderful world and our hope for eternity. We want to make a new beginning. May some word be said, some handicap given, some look of love, some movement of the Holy Spirit that will help us to see what we are, in order that we may be what Christ calls us to be and do.
So let this be a time of healing for our sickness, forgiveness for what we have done or failed to do, strength to bear the daily burden, light for the darkness, wisdom to make the right decision, and a renewal of love for each other within the Body of Christ.
That all of this is possible brings a shout of joy and praise through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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