03-15-06

            Our church theme during Lent is Journey With Jesus.  During the church season of Lent, we are lead to grow in our faith relationship with God.  These six weeks prior to Easter should be a time of  remembering God’s great gift of love on the cross and what expects of us as disciples of Jesus.  The following prayer is one that hope will help you in your Journey With Jesus.

We Dare to Speak Your Name
Author Unknown

  O God, we dare to speak your name at threat of having our mouths stopped, for your name is holy, and wherever we are we ought take off our shoes, for all ground everywhere is sacred.

  Still, we pray in your presence here that our spirits be joyous, our words be inspired and true, our works hereafter be just.

  Renew our minds and bodies to be fresh and vital as morning light, and grant us peace within deep as the starry night.

  Open our eyes to your glory in the subtle dazzle of everything, in the lives of every living thing, that everywhere and at all times we assuredly be mindful of you.

  Deliver us from captivity to comfort and security and propriety that we may be free to risk for you at every turn and circumstance.

  Make us brave and bold and scrupled enough to know that to love our enemies does not mean to be afraid to make them in a daily thrust toward justice and in the bold venture of saying what we mean, and meaning what we say, in a trustworthy strive toward intimacy.

  Awaken us to the task of becoming beautiful in spirit, mind and heart, and so in face, that our gifts be worthy of grace.

  Arouse us to pay the price of being merciful that our lives reflect your mercy to us.

  Empower us to dare to be compassionate that your dreams for our humanity come true, to be imaginative that your Kingdom come in and through us, to be disciplined yet flexible that we may prepare the way for you in our hearts and in your world; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

                                              Grace and Peace,

                                                Pastor Richard

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