Today we pray with Walter Brueggemann once again, acknowledging God’s presence among us and in the midst of all of the messiness of life.

In the midst of all the pushing and shoving

In the midst of all the pushing and shoving
        among us,
        in the world and in the church,
        propelled by anxiety and
        acted as brutality,
You have planted yourself in all your fidelity.
You have placed yourself among us
        in steadfastness and abiding care
        present in the day,
        alert in the night,
        making us all safe and noticed and cared for.
So evidence your fidelity as to curb our anxiety,
                as to restrain our brutality,
                as to overcome our alienation.
By your fidelity, renew us
            renew church,
            renew city,
            renew world.
Give us the safety to love you fully,
        to love neighbour well,
            in glad obedience.  Amen.

May God’s blessing be upon you today,
Dianne

(Prayer from: Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann, Edited by Edwin Searcy, Fortress Press Minneapolis 2003. page 118.)