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On this final prayer for this week the writing of Walter Brueggemann reminds us of the power and place of God’s word in our world and in our lives.  Today, with him, we think about those who carry God’s word to others and we ask for the courage to do so ourselves.

Your word

Your word is a light to our feet and a lamp to our path.
Your word is a glue of the universe wherein the whole creation coheres.
Your word is the address of promise and command by which we live.
Your word has come fleshed among us full of grace and truth.
    We are creatures of your word and we give thanks for it.
For all that we are more dazzled that your word
    is carried, uttered, acted
    by frail vulnerable human agents.
We ponder and give thanks for those who this day
    speak your word where it is desperately needed
        and deeply resisted.
We ponder and give thanks for those who this day
    act your word for newness and peace and justice.
We ponder with trepidation that among us
    you will yet designate such carriers,
        such speakers,
        such actors.
In thanks for your word,
    we pray for courage in the name of the one
        who emptied himself.  Amen.

(Prayer from: Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann, Edited by Edwin Searcy, Fortress Press Minneapolis 2003. page 71.)

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