Prayer of Thanks
“Blessed be the Lord, my rock …
may our barns be filled with produce of every kind…
happy are the people to whom such blessings fall.”
--Verses from a Hebrew hymn, Psalm 144
Often this devotional mailing focuses on the centrality of prayer in our lives. Many of us begin to look forward on Wednesday to a weekend where the pace of life is different than the week, to a cookout or to celebrating a special day. Often the gathering includes a meal and so today we offer a prayer for those who provide for us.
In the midst of our plenty, O God,
Recall our debt to those who garner our food for us…
those who pluck pineapples in the blaze of noon,
those who buck the seas in search of fish,
those who tend sheep and cattle through all the tantrums of weather,
those who plow, and sow, and cultivate, and then wait in hope.
Teach us that we live
because others have fished and farmed and shepherded.
Accept our thanks for those who care for creation
and turn it into provisions for our festivities.
Ben Keckler
06.11.08
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Daily Devotions - Monday, December 31
CLOSING OUT ANOTHER YEAR
"Looking Back and Looking Forward"
The year of 2007 is coming to a close and I want to share a prayer with you before we arrive at New Year’s Day.
Holy God,
We offer you thanks and praise
for all the surprising graces which have come to us,
for those that sustain our lives and those that change them.
--for food, familiar diets and startling new aromas and tastes;
--for homes, places of steady surroundings and settings for redemptive love;
--for friendships, old friends who are willingly open in their affection
and correction,
and new friends who remind us that your spirited presence still dwells with us
and others;
--for tasks to perform, routine actions, which we do well, and which give order to our days;
--for tasks at which we have failed and discovered a restored and needed humility;
--for all your gifts that empower us and others to live the faith-filled life.
Great and mighty God we praise your name today.
Bring your peace among us now we humbly pray. Amen.
Ben Keckler
12.31.07
"Looking Back and Looking Forward"
The year of 2007 is coming to a close and I want to share a prayer with you before we arrive at New Year’s Day.
Holy God,
We offer you thanks and praise
for all the surprising graces which have come to us,
for those that sustain our lives and those that change them.
--for food, familiar diets and startling new aromas and tastes;
--for homes, places of steady surroundings and settings for redemptive love;
--for friendships, old friends who are willingly open in their affection
and correction,
and new friends who remind us that your spirited presence still dwells with us
and others;
--for tasks to perform, routine actions, which we do well, and which give order to our days;
--for tasks at which we have failed and discovered a restored and needed humility;
--for all your gifts that empower us and others to live the faith-filled life.
Great and mighty God we praise your name today.
Bring your peace among us now we humbly pray. Amen.
Ben Keckler
12.31.07
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