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A Word from Mother Pat+: A prayer for reflection
This week perhaps you can find a time to open and close your day with new prayers. These prayers may be familiar to you or new to you. I selected these prayers because they express our thoughts in a pattern of words which may free us from the need to excel or to achieve simply for the sake of completing the work. These prayers allow us to offer ourselves to God with hope and the assurance of God’s eternal presence with us; however, these prayers do not simply focus on our immediate needs. These prayers focus us on God and God’s presence with us.
If these prayers are useful, I invite you to print and save them, to use as you will. Both prayers come from the New Zealand Prayer Book pgs. 183 & 184.
Let us pray:
God our Creator, our center, our friend,
we thank you for our good life,
for those who are dear to us,
for our dead, and for all who have helped and influenced us.
We thank you for the freedom we have,
and the extent to which we control our lives;
and most of all we thank you for the faith that is in us,
for our awareness of you and our hope in you.
Keep us, we pray you, thankful and hopeful
and useful until our lives shall end. Amen.
Prayer for the night:
Lord, it is night.
The night is for stillness. Let us be still in the presence of God.
It is night after a long day.
What has been done has been done; what has not been done has not been done; let it be.
The night is dark.
Let our fears of the darkness of the world and of our own lives rest in you.
The night is quiet.
Let the quietness of your peace enfold us, all dear to us, and all who have no peace.
The night heralds the dawn.
Let us look expectantly to a new day, new joys, new possibilites.
In your name we pray, Amen.
Prayer is essential to our Christian journey. May you find yourself ever mindful of God’s presence. Mother Pat+ Mo Pat+
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