Wednesday, March 8, 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.

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.

Divine Family, thank you we share and participate in your heavenly calling. Thank you, Jesus, son of God, for being faithful to God and to us. We look to you with open hearts and minds so we can learn and grow in our relationship with you and be in partnership with you.

We enter your sacred prayer space, and become aware of your firm yet gentle hand upon us. We lash out at others for their acts and behaviours, but do not listen to your wisdom and guidance about how we should behave. We have acted with judgemental convictions towards you and others. But you are the God of countless second chances.

Thank you, Yahweh, for wrapping us in your love. Thank you for reminding us to let go of our anger, bitterness, and slander. Thank you for the invitation to be kind and compassionate. Thank you for forgiving us.

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.