A daily prayer during this COVID-19 crisis for September 6, 2020

September 6, 2020
 A daily prayer during this COVID-19 crisis
 During these difficult days, members of the Commonwealth West District of the New England Conference are sharing a daily prayer based on the Revised Common Lectionary for the week.
 You are welcome to use these in worship or in your own devotions.

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Today’s prayer

 Is it true?
 that whenever we gather
 in Loving Purpose
 a Spirit of Love dwells?
 
 My heart aches to gather
 to clasp hands
 to hug
 
 So I rest my hand against a Rock
 I kneel down and touch the Soil
 I lean against a Tree
 A Gathering
 in a Spirit of Love
 
 O Spirit that dwells deep within and all around
 we offer this sacrifice
 not to clasp hands
 not to hug
 
 We paint it on our doorposts
 as we weep
 for the suffering
 the oppressed
 the slain
 
 Gather our tears, we pray
 Weave them with the stars and seeds and songbirds
 a Mighty Quilt of comfort
 to cradle us in our Covenant
 faithful to this sacrificial love
 that binds us and sets us free
 
 Dr. Tallessyn Grenfell-Lee, laity from FUMC Hudson, MA
 In response to Exodus 12:1-14; Psalm 119; Matthew 18:15-20