Here’s
a responsive prayer of celebration from the Pictou United Church website. It
was adapted from a prayer by Rex Hunt.
Prayer
Holy
One, we celebrate
that
where people are gathered together in love:
You are present
and good things
happen and life is full.
We
celebrate
that
we are immersed in your mystery
our
lives are more than they seem:
We belong to each
other
and to a universe of
great creative energies,
whose source and
destiny is you, our God.
We
celebrate
that
your spirit beat in the heart of Jesus of Nazareth:
The good news of your
healing, embracing and liberating love
was heard by the
broken, the lonely
and all bound by
life’s sorrows and struggles.
We
celebrate
that
the spirit of peace and hope is present
with
us and though us:
In our struggle to
love
we incarnate your
holy presence in our world.
And
so, aware of the hurts and longings all of us carry,
the
awe and wonder that is around us,
and
the gifts of faith and this community of faith:
We pause and we
become ever aware
of the sacredness of our
lives.
In
that awareness may we act and speak and live.
May
it be so…
~ adapted from worship resources by Rex Hunt (Uniting
Church of Australia), and posted on the Pictou United Church website. http://www.pictouunited.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/4-14-2013-Holy-Humour-Sunday.pdf
