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Hello all!
I hope you are well today. I so enjoyed worshipping with you all on Sunday, as always.
For the next few weeks, I'm going to write some thoughts on each part of the service, so that we can consider how our weekly rhythms of worship can help us become who we are called to be in the world.
Last week, we looked at singing, and so today, we are going to talk about prayer.
Prayer is such a sacred communication with God.
- In prayer, we trust in a God who welcomes us as we are: who sees us, who hears us, who understands us. God who doesn't require us to polish ourselves up, but who receives us with all of our complexity, who holds us in how we feel, who loves us through it all.
- When we pray together, we turn our attention to God and pray for God's will to be done on earth. In our weekly prayers of invocation, we begin our worship by acknowledging God's loving presence and opening our hearts to what God might say to us during the worship service. In our prayers of the people, we lift our concerns before God -- spoken and unspoken, and join our voices with our siblings around the world who lament what is not as it should be, and who hope in a God who makes all things new.
??In my own experience, prayer recalibrates me. It allows me to suspend all else that's happening in my day, in our world, and turn my thoughts and attention to a good God who loves us and who is at work in the world.
Thanks be to God for the gift of prayer.
Warmly,
K
