Here’s
an Easter prayer from Christine Jerrett. (For more great prayers from
Christine, see the link to her blog below.)
Easter Prayer
We
praise you, living God,
with
songs and prayers and listening hearts
and
lives trying to obey your will.
You
have created and are creating,
bringing
life and hope and love.
You
come in Jesus, your Word made flesh,
to
reconcile and make new.
In
a culture where the power death gets all the headlines
your
Holy Spirit summons us to be people
shaped
by your power to work resurrection.
We
are not sure we believe as fully as we think we should.
We
are not sure we trust as deeply as we think you require.
But
we bring who we are and what we have become
into
your presence,
longing
to know your grace and your love.
Forgive
what has gone wrong.
Repair
in us what is broken.
Reveal
in us what is good and turn us toward it.
So
may we follow wherever your Spirit may lead.
So
may we love with the love of Jesus flowing through us.
So
may we, body, mind and spirit,
be
children of resurrection,
children
of hope,
children
of grace.
In
Christ Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
