Heavenly Father there is no substitute for you. All the works of our hands have proven insufficient. We have even bankrupted ourselves on the misuse of your Creation; it was never meant to bear the weight of our souls!
So it is with delight that we enter by the way of Jesus’ life, death, burial and resurrection into your Communion — the communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In you we are loved. In you we are satisfied.
We have tried to quench the thirst of our souls — but truthfully we have trouble locating our thirst. We confuse our thirst for you with the development of our selves. Improvement of our identities is killing us. Chasing the next adventure has become severely limited. And meeting people online sometimes tires us out. Oh Lord we need you — we need you. We cry out with the Psalmist:
1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
O Lord, We miss gathering in person but we join you in loving the world anyway! We lift up to you our neighbours anxious under the weight of illness, loss, or financial worries (PAUSE) . We lift up to you people and countries fighting the Covid 19 Pandemic: Zimbabwe, the Royhinga in Bangladesh, the refugees in Lesbos Greece and the people of NewYork and Montreal.
Oh Lord Jesus rise up in us a Spring of Living water. We seek you so pray as you taught us (Join me in the Lord’s Prayer)
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one;
for yours is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
forever.
Amen.