WORSHIP

Eternal God, our Father, we call upon all that is within us to worship Thee. Great is thy faithfulness. We live and die, succeed and fail, because you are faithful. We trust the future because you art faithful.

Oh, make us faithful, too! We confess that we are willful. We want our own way. We stand every moment at the edge of the abyss, held back only by the eternity which you have set in our hearts. We thank you for Him whose life, death, and resurrection have made it possible for the whole world to be reborn. Accepting Him, may we also accept our role in Thy kingdom now and Thy kingdom which is to come.

We thank you for the privilege of worship. May Thy presence be real to each of us. Rekindle the fires on the cold altars of our hearts. Banish the cynicism and despair which hold us in their terrible grip. Give us the gift of love and show us the attraction of holy living--and the inclusiveness of it. Remind us here of those whose living enriches our living and of those who die that we might go on living.

We remember before Thee the sick and the discouraged, the bereaved and those who count themselves a failure. Turn them and all of us to the Cross, where both bane and blessing, pain and pleasure are sanctified and where peace is found which knows no measure and joy that then all time abides.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit we pray. Amen.