Here’s
a prayer for Trinity Sunday (the Sunday after Pentecost) from the Church of
Scotland’s Starters for Sunday website.
It was written by the Very Rev. John Chalmers.
Pastoral Prayer for Trinity Sunday
Almighty
God known as wisdom before the dawn of creation,
Lord
Jesus Christ – perfect love made flesh,
Holy
Spirit of God – ever present,
O
Hidden Source of Life wrapped up in perfect Trinity,
we
meditate upon the great and gracious plan
which
you have brought to pass,
that
women and men like us should look beyond creation
to
worship you the Creator of all things.
In
the beginning,
You
the uncreated
moved
across the face of deep
and
brought out space and time
and
then material substance:
The
atom and the molecule and the crystalline form:
Then
the first germ of life
and
the long upward striving of all things: that swim and creep and fly:
And
then the miracle of intelligence and consciousness ;
The
beginning of mystery and the building of the first altar;
And
then the saying of the first prayer;
O
hidden love of God,
forgive
us for those times when we have taken this mystery for granted
and
forgive us all the more
for
the times when we thought that we had unravelled the mystery
and
thought that we knew it all –
the
how, the where and the why.
Almighty
God, let us not harbour anything in our hearts
that
might spoil our fellowship with you
or
with one another;
work
with us and within us:
Do what you will with us;
Make of us what you want of us;
Change us as we need changed
Use us as your will requires –
Through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
~
Adapted from John Bailie “A Diary of Private Prayer” Thirteenth Day: Morning by
the Very Rev. John Chalmers. It was posted on the Church of Scotland’s Starters for Sunday website. http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/
