Sundays after Easter
Prayer
Pastoral Prayers For All Seasons
Object:
A good portion of the time, our heavenly Spirit, we glide along on the surface of life. We get up, eat breakfast, enter our workday, eat lunch, finish our workday, eat dinner, go to an evening event or watch television and then back to bed. There may be a snag here or there, but nothing a little adjustment can't handle. And so we go through the week on automatic pilot. Weekends have their own routines, yet if all goes well -- and it often does -- we fly through Saturday and Sunday calm and cool. Life is "a piece of cake."
However, there are those times when we are pushed off our smooth track and minor adjustments won't get us back on. Troubled feelings erupt into our consciousness and we become irritable, angry, depressed, or sorrowful. We may try all the tricks we know to get back on automatic pilot, but none of them succeeds.
In mounting desperation we turn to family and friends trying to reach a calmer, deeper self. But we don't fully succeed. Then, at last, we come to you, God. Something has gone wrong and "business as usual" isn't going to put us back on our old familiar ways.
It is in these times that we discover how strong you are, how wise, how caring. What appears to be chaos to us becomes an opportunity for you to enrich our lives, heal our wounds, and deepen our understanding of life. How grateful we are that we can come into your presence.
It is our great joy that you are our God. And while our troubled times are never welcome, we have learned that they are the occasions that often bring us closer to you. Then our gratitude has no limits.
In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.
However, there are those times when we are pushed off our smooth track and minor adjustments won't get us back on. Troubled feelings erupt into our consciousness and we become irritable, angry, depressed, or sorrowful. We may try all the tricks we know to get back on automatic pilot, but none of them succeeds.
In mounting desperation we turn to family and friends trying to reach a calmer, deeper self. But we don't fully succeed. Then, at last, we come to you, God. Something has gone wrong and "business as usual" isn't going to put us back on our old familiar ways.
It is in these times that we discover how strong you are, how wise, how caring. What appears to be chaos to us becomes an opportunity for you to enrich our lives, heal our wounds, and deepen our understanding of life. How grateful we are that we can come into your presence.
It is our great joy that you are our God. And while our troubled times are never welcome, we have learned that they are the occasions that often bring us closer to you. Then our gratitude has no limits.
In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.
