BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE
Daily Prayers of the Church Street family
March 17, 2020
Pastor Jan
O Holy Mystery, the prophets tell us that you search for us. And we long for you as well. We search for you, yet you often seem hidden and elusive. Perchance you know that we have sought you in unlikely places. We wait for lightning to flash when we are most in need. We fashion harried schedules, then expect to hear your booming voice break in upon our crowded lives. In this Lenten Season, and particularly in this time of inordinate stress, help us to learn that you are with us already. You abide in the shadows of our souls, and you live within the very beating of our hearts. Amid the cacophony of voices around us and our frantic pace to remain safe, may we become still and know that you are God – ever loving and ever faithful.
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.
We lift up this day these particular friends in our church family who have asked to be remembered:
- a young woman whose fiancé tragically perished in a fire
- a member who sits by her dying father’s bedside
- three women who have been widowed in recent weeks
- our homeless friends in need of food and shelter
- an adult son in desperate search of work
Hear now our private confessions and concerns . . . . . . . .
and also our praises for the joys you have brought about in our lives . . . . . . . .
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.
These petitions we offer this day, remembering the Son who loves us more deeply than we can understand, and it is in his name we make our prayer:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
