Sunday Pastoral Prayer
Beulah UMC & Oak Grove UMC
February 11, 2024
O God, thank you for that first verse of our prayer hymn to help us to express that which is many times inexpressible. “How can we name a Love that wakens heart and mind, in dwelling all we know or think of do or seek or find? Within our daily world, in every human face, Love’s echoes sound and God is found, hid in the common place.”
Glimpses of your heavenly light shine brightly upon us just like it did for Peter, James, and John on that mountain so long ago. Thank you for awaking our hearts and minds to catch a glimpse of your light even when coming out of that coffee shop. Thank you for awaking our hearts and minds through the unexpected breaking of the clouds at the top of a cold cemetery hill. Thank you for awaking our hearts and minds when your light shines through a friend who is takes the time to listen to you share your heavy heart of grief.
You are a God who is more than able to shine brightly through any darkness, challenge, or sadness we may be facing. You are a God who is able to hear the joys and concerns that are on our hearts and minds today and offer healing, guidance and comfort. You are a God who knows just the right amount of heavenly light we need that will awaken our souls and draw us closer with you.
On this bridge Sunday in which the past several weeks of the cold winter season is about to give way to the new season of Lent, awaken us to become even more aware of your glimpses of heaven that are all around us. Continue to awaken our hearts and minds to see your presence at work, at home, or in the street.
We pray this in the name of Jesus, the Light of the world who taught us to pray together saying…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
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