a co-missioning prayer - worship trick series 3 is now complete...

this is from mark berry...

Co:missioning prayer
In the name of the divine and mysterious Trinity,
You have called us into being through love.
You have joined us to one another in love.
You have placed us in your world to love.

Grant each one of us the strength
To carry your blessing from this place to the next.
May we be at home in any land and in any place in between, for all the cosmos is yours.
May we, with our hopes set on your shalom in the world, live also as aliens in all lands.

May the rhythms of your creation be the heartbeat which sustains our very life. 
May the lamp of your word guide our feet on the unsure paths of each day.
May your breathing be the winds which lead us across strange new oceans.

Our lives are but a breath,
But our breaths are drawn, from your divine Spirit.
You have created us, peregrinate,
traveling paradoxes, holy wanderers.
Specs of dust and divine-image bearers.
Shadows of your creativity,
and crucibles of the spark of innovation.
We are constantly restless until we rest in you.

Grant each one of us and our community a deeper fullness of being and spirit,
May our faces be fuller in glory and joy,
Now bearing new shape, as our faces transform and supplement one another.
May that transformation bring peace, joy and love in the world in which you have placed us.

Go in the name of the Spirit who moves across the surface the waters,
and in the beating of the human heart, 
Go in the name of Jesus, the God-Man who died, rose and lives on for us,
Go in the name of the Creator and re-Creator, the mother of grace.
Amen

i have slacked off worship tricks of late but want to keep them ticking along so this is no 100 series 3. that makes 3 series complete - it's only taken me nine years! i looked back to see when i started and realise that i actually started blogging nine years ago yesterday (scroll down the page for the first post). who would have thought?! happy blog birthday to me :-)

here are the links to the series 1 | 2 | 3 which you can always get to following the links ion the right hand side bar...

Comments

[cheryl]

glad there's no angst about whether to keep them going. they're still the first place i look.

[Changing Worship]

Thank you for this. I use it at the end of the Maundy Thursday service tonight. It was brilliant and works really well!!