Eternal God, our Father, we come before you now after another week of living in the world. We have thought too little of You in this past week. We are mystified by the swirling current of events around us. We feel depleted in body, mind and spirit by so much coming and going. We have the haunting feeling that something is wrong, wrong with us and with our world. Yet, we go on, hoping somehow that everything will turn out all right. Bring it home to us that it won't turn out right until we turn to you.
Take off our masks, the masks we have worn so long in a vain effort to hide our true selves from others and even from ourselves. Help us to see through our excuses for not doing our duty to God and man, even as you have seen through them all the time. Take the load of guilt from us that we may be free again.
Lord Jesus, may we hear your gracious invitation once more, full of judgement and full of mercy, "Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest..."
And having dwelt with you may we:
"Go forth into the world in peace;
Be of good courage;
Hold fast that which is good;
Render to no man evil for evil;
Strengthen the faint-hearted;
Support the weak and help the afflicted;
Honor all men;
Love and serve the Lord,
rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit. :
We pray in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
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