Aug. 5, 2022
A daily prayer from the New England Conference
Members of the New England Conference Extended Cabinet 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.
Today's Prayer
Read Luke 12: 13 – 21 Close to Being Empty-Handed
We are among the builders,
we do silos and missile silos,
we do tall towers and large granaries,
we do pyramids and monuments and steeples and high-rises,
we build because we are able, because it looks good,
because it feels good,
because we have so
much stuff to store
we need bigger, better barns.
We make it tall and shiny and beautiful
only to discover that moth and rust consume, only to discover that shiny surface turns empty shell, only to discover that storage is for goods
that melt and sour.
We end closer to empty-handed than we imagined.
As we are able we turn from our cities to you, we turn from our successes to you, we turn from our reason to you,
we turn from our power to you.
To you, to you, to you, to you,
our help is in no other
save in you alone.
You only, you enough, you in your generosity. Whom have we in heaven but you?
There is nothing on earth
that we desire other than you.
Hear our trust and our thanks and our readiness to obey.
Submitted by Rev. Rick McKinley, Dir. of Congregational Development. Written by Walter Brueggemann, “Prayers for a Privileged People,” Abingdon Press, Nashville, 2008, pp. 19-20
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