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Our faith proclaims that God is close, so close that He is prepared to come and live within us.  In today’s prayer from Walter Brueggemann we draw near to God as God draws near to us, and share the intimacy together of our longings, our aches and our grief for a world that is not yet what God and we dream for it to be.

 We wait for you to ache

With the energy we have,
    we begin the day,
    waiting and watching and hoping.

We wait,
    not clear about our waiting.
But filled with a restlessness,
    daring to imagine
    that you are not finished yet-
    so we wait,
    patiently, impatiently,
    restlessly, confidently,
    quaking and fearful,
    boldly and daring.

Your sovereign decree stands clear 
    and we do not doubt.
We wait for you to dissolve in tender tears.
Your impervious rule takes no prisoners,
    we wait for you to ache and hurt and care over us
    and with us
    and beyond us.
        Cry with us the brutality
        grieve with us the misery
        tremble with us the poverty and hurt.
Attend to us – by attending in power and in mercy,
    remake this alien world into our proper home.

We pray in the name of the utterly homeless one,
    even Jesus.
Amen.

(Poem from: Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann, Edited by Edwin Searcy, Fortress Press Minneapolis 2003. page 7.)

May God’s blessing be upon you today,
Dianne

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