Wednesday, May 4, 2022

We gather at your Beautiful Gate, in your Holy Court, to hear your teachings. We are surrounded by those who seek the law and to uphold their own values and beliefs. Your ways threaten them, risking their empires and evil schemes will be exposed and crumble around them. We have learned your ways are truly beautiful and loving, kind, and perfect. Speak, so that we will be filled with awe at your mystery.

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

Lectionary Readings for Today:
Psalm 113:1-9
Isaiah 5:8-23
Mark 12:41-44

We enter your sacred prayer space preparing for worship. As we arrive, you welcome us as we are, even though we still carry our worldly idols and household gods. You open your space to us and offer us room to lay these down in your presence. We struggle to release what we have gathered and built with our own hands. But you remind us of our journey yet to come, the destination where other gods and idols are useless. You invite us to empty ourselves so you can fill us.