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Prayer for the Sixth Sunday of Lent
This is a day of conflicting emotions, God of passion and life. We have come to a bend in the river, a turning point in the narrative, a juxtaposition of celebration and impending sorrow. We too feel the strangeness of life sometimes weighed down with the stresses of pandemic life, yet dotted with joy and hope. We pray for moments of relief, for times of pleasure in life even in the face of challenge. Like a river in spring, that sometimes overflows her banks, flooding the surrounding lowlands, may love and joy overflow into the low places in our lives. May we delight in your never ceasing goodness, bubbling and dancing like water flowing over rocks and obstacles. Pull us deeper into your current of life, a river that is wide with mercy and justice, a river that carries the full range of emotion, a river that ebbs and flows but never ceases. Amen. - Wendy Janzen
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Prayer for the Fifth Sunday of Lent
Mothering God, who created Earth and formed rhythms and seasons and cycles: I celebrate the coming of spring once again. As the warming sun melts frozen earth into mud and snowdrops bloom, emerald moss invites me to lay down my head and listen to earth’s heartbeat. Give me pause here, God of mystery, to stop and ponder what lies beneath. Do not let me turn away from examining the unseen places deep within. What secrets are hidden there? What wisdom have you planted, what seeds of transformation are just waiting for the right conditions? Make of me fertile soil where spring’s eternal lessons of regeneration might take root and grow: death is not the end of the story, but rather the place of new beginnings. Amen. - Wendy Janzen Prayer for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
This has felt like a year in the wilderness O God. A year of wandering, sometimes lost, often alone, facing challenges we weren’t prepared for. There have been thorns and snakes and wild animals, dark moonless nights, endless days, and clouds of dread, disorientation, and danger. A year, already, of wandering far away from what was familiar, of wondering what lies ahead. God, in this wilderness save us. Remind us, Wild Christ, that wilderness can be a place of ferment, introspection, prompting insight and transformation. Teach us that facing our fears can sometimes be a remedy for our malaise. Restore our sense of wholeness. Heal our wounded spirits, Reorient our lost souls. Rescue us from trouble and inject us with hope. Amen. - Wendy Janzen Prayer for the third Sunday of Lent
Blessed Spirit of Wisdom, In whom we live and move and have our being, Bless to us this day the vast sky high above our heads, the sky close in front of our faces, the sky we breathe into our bodies. We give thanks and praise today for the sky, which is ever changing, and yet never changes. We give thanks for spaciousness and splendor, sunrise and sunset, floating clouds, celestial bodies, and rainbows. We give thanks for all that is unseen and invisible to us, all that we are unconscious of, and all that we take for granted, but that is vital for life. Broaden our understanding beyond our limited ways of knowing. Deepen the arc of our wisdom to align with the wisdom of heaven. Expand our awareness of your encompassing, embracing presence, as present as the air in the sky, even when we can’t see the signs. Glory, sings billowing clouds, Glory, sings aurora borealis, Glory, sings daybreak. Glory be to the sky. Amen. - Wendy Janzen |
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