Here’s a beautiful Easter prayer from Sonya Dyer.
Easter
“…just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,
so we too might walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4
Risen, living Christ,
we embrace your gift of resurrection power.
We open our whole being to your invitation to
join you in moving from deadness into fullness of life.
We respond, "Yes!"
to your call to live.
Jesus, spirit, companion, friend,
you embrace the whole world with human/divine love and caring.
You ask each of us to show our love for you
by tending and feeding your world and its people.
Enable us to recognize the people and places
to whom we are being sent.
Enable us to offer love.
Open us to fresh expressions
of your loving of us,
so that we can be more whole and more accepting of ourselves
and out of that acceptance
move toward others with trusting hearts.
Turn us from mourning into dancing.
Loosen our sackcloth.
Gird us with gladness.
Christ spirit,
you go before us and call us into the future.
Encourage our community
as we form and re-form ourselves as your Body.
Just as the revelations of Easter
energized the first disciples,
so we would be energized to dream new visions
and be open to new risks
and to the unknown.
We join your embrace of the whole world
with our prayers.
~ written by Sonya Dyer, in Sonya Dyer’s Prayerbook, posted on the Seekers Church website. http://www.seekerschurch.org/
