O God, just as our opening hymn this morning asks you what gift we can bring, the prayer hymn which we just sung together answers that question. The best gifts we can give to you in any given moment is our praise and thanks.
Our praise and thanks when taking a walk through Falls Park along the Reedy River in Greenville, listening to the ocean waves along Folly Beach, enjoying a perfectly ripe tomato from a local produce stand, watching the purple martins flying back to Lake Murray during a beautiful sunset.
Thank you for these day-to-day holy moments that remind us to offer to you our praise and thanks. Like these Sunday mornings in church where you always seem to find a way to draw us closer to you and with each other.
And as we lift up to you those who are on our prayer list as well as those prayer needs that are on our hearts and minds this day, we give you praise and thanks for your healing, guiding, protecting and loving presence. Before we even have a chance to say, “Amen,” at the end of this prayer, you are already reaching out to those in need of your comforting and reassuring love.
Like David who wanted to build you a house, we are humbled when you tell us that you are building a house for us, a house not built with hands, but an eternal house, a house in which Jesus told us that there are many rooms. Thank you for providing room for each one of us where there is more than enough love, more than enough peace, and more than enough grace.
O, God of the Sparrow and God of the Whale, what gift can we possibly bring to you this day for all that you have done for us? We give to you our praise and thanks. We pray this in the name of Jesus, the Son of David 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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