Wall-Building: A Brick And A Prayer

Bring the Brick-Sticker home to pray and discern what God is asking you or you & your family, or small group to "build" or offer to the Lord in your workplaces, homes and communities, e.g. commitment to pray, forgiving someone, serving God in a specific way, honouring God through the burdens God has given you. You are encouraged to use this prayer liturgy:

A Liturgy for the Labours of Community

Copyright © 2017, Douglas Mckelvey

 

Leader (L): Our lives are so small, O Lord,
People (P): Our vision so limited,

L: Our courage so frail,
P: Our hours so fleeting.
L: Therefore give us grace and guidance
    for the journey ahead.

    We are gathered here because we believe
    that we are called together into a work
    we cannot yet know the fullness of.
P: Still, we trust the voice of
     the One who has called us.

L: And so we offer to you, O God, these things:
P: Our dreams, our plans, our vision.
L: Shape them as You will.
P: Our moments and our gifts.
L: May they be invested
    toward bright, eternal ends.

P: Richly bless the work before us, Father.
L: Shepherd us well lest we go enamoured
    of our own accomplishment
    or entrenched in old habit.
    Instead, let us listen for Your voice,
    our hearts ever open to the quiet beckonings
    of Your Spirit in this endeavour.
P: Let us in true humility and poverty of
    spirit remain ever ready to move at the
    impulse of your love in paths of your design.

L: You alone, O God,
    by your gracious and life-giving Spirit
    have power to knit our imperfect hearts,
    our weaknesses, our strengths,
    our stories, and our gifts, one to another.
P: Unite Your people and multiply
    our meagre offerings, O Lord,
    that all might resound to Your glory.

L: May our acts of service and creation,
    frail and wanting as they are,
    be met and multiplied by the mysterious
    workings of Your Spirit
    who weaves all things together
    toward a redemption more good and glorious
    than we yet have eyes to see, or courage to hope for.
P: May our love and our labours
    now echo your love and
    your labours, O Lord.

L: Let all that we do here,
    in these our brief lives,
    in this our brief moment to love,
    in this work you have ordained
    for this community,
    flower in winsome
    and beautiful foretaste
    of greater glories yet to come.

P: O Spirit of God,
    Now shape our hearts.
    O Spirit of God,
    Now guide our hands.
    O Spirit of God,
    Now build Your kingdom among us.

    Amen.

 

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