EXCHANGES ON THE WAY: LENTEN PRAYERS
Day 28: Fifth Saturday
Mark 12:28-34
God we love You! We praise You! We thank You for delivering us from oppression and sin. We rejoice that You have led us into new life. We thank You for providing adequately, and sometimes abundantly, for all of our needs.
Holy One, enable us to invest all that we are in You. Enable us to love You without hesitation and without stint. Divert us and draw us to yourself when we are tempted to divide our loyalty between You and some object or idea of human creation. Keep us from worshiping ourselves in the guise of the things we have made.
As we love You, and give ourselves to You, in joyful response to the generous self-giving love You have demonstrated in Jesus, enable us to see our neighbors more clearly. Make us more sensitive to their needs and enable us to respond with compassion, generosity, and creativity that matches those needs. Enable us to love them, too, without hesitation and without stint, so that we may live in joyful communion with one another in your presence.
You have overwhelmed us with your love. Let love flow through us every day. Amen.
Thoughts, and prayers from Pastor David Antieau at St. Nicolai United Church of Christ
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