Saturday, December 28, 2024

With our whole hearts, we worship and adore you. Thank you for the sacred space, where we can explore and embrace your love for us. In hope we are joyful and we lift up our prayers. Our love for you is deep and wide and it flows out to your creation. We pay attention to see you and who you send our way. May we live in harmony with you and your creation.

Thank you, Loving God, for the Spirit-filled people you send to us to bring us good news, heal broken hearts, and who speak freedom and who remind us we are; your Beloved. We join with them, turning our sorrow into joyful songs of praise because you are with us. Thank you for removing our shame and disgrace. We relish in our inheritance and double portions. You fill us to the brim.

We enter your sacred prayer space, remembering your birthday into this physical world. We gather with friends and family. We read and reflect on the stories of your birth. We celebrate and give thanks for the many blessings of the past year.

Today, we invite you to reread, rest, and reflect on the prayers of the past week.

Lectionary Readings for Today: Weekly Review
Psalm 72:1-20
Isaiah 6:1-5
Acts 7:44-53

You beckon us to come away with you. Give us feet ready to run with you. Comfort and assure us as we lay in your presence, in your vast and bountiful meadows. We want for nothing, for you are with us.

We journey together upon your Ancient Path, in the company of friends and family. With our attention on each other, we sometimes lose sight of you and are no longer in your presence. We give thanks that we know you are in your sacred prayer space, waiting for us to return to you.