Saturday, February 25, 2023

The glow of Grandmother Moon in the night watches reveals the vastness of this land. The fields are waking, the birds are returning. The trees will soon begin to sing as you call all of us to return to you. All our relations journey together from across this land in the ceremony of new life.

With your new garments, we are clothed for this Lenten journey. We have paused to receive your blessings and wisdom as we prepare for the next steps. Turn our pile of sins and burdens into faith-markers for ourselves and others, so we will remember your boundless love and mercy.

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

Lectionary Readings for Today:
Psalm 130:1-8
Ezekiel 36:8-15
Luke 24:44-53

Loving Yahweh, thank you for providing for our daily needs. Thank you for listening to us, even when we are complaining against you. Thank you for teaching us to be in a relationship with you and each other. May we never forget your loving presence and blessings. May we look to you.

We enter your sacred prayer space from where we are on our Lenten Journey. You meet us and invite us to selah, and to listen. You reveal our brokenness, our frailty, our impulse to hurt you and others. Your words shake us; and we question your judgement, and blurt out: “Surely, not us, LORD.” We feel ashamed, but, at the same time, desire to please you, to bring you honour, instead of hurt you.

We walk with you to the spaces in our landscape that represent grief and death to us. Jesus calls to these spaces. We hear him command that which is dead within us to come back to life. Dreams, desires, gifts, and visions that were once dead are caught in the breath of Life-giving Spirit and come forth within us.