O God of mystery, wonder, and surprises, surely your presence is in this place. You reveal yourself to us after a long hike up a high mountain. You reveal yourself to us when we are faced with a difficult decision. You reveal yourself to us when our hearts are grieving. And you reveal yourself to us while seated in a church pew during a typical Sunday morning of worship. Surely your presence is in this place.
Thank you for these holy moments and heighten our awareness so that we not only see them but also expect them. Open our hearts to see your presence on the mountaintop as well as in the valley, along the interstate as well as a meandering back road, during a worship service as well as in our own living room. Surely your presence is in every place.
And thank you for this opportunity this morning to pray for the people on our church’s prayer list as well as others who are on our hearts and minds that they would know of your holy presence in whatever they may be facing. May they know of your healing, guiding, comforting, and saving holy presence this day and throughout this week. Surely your presence is in every space.
On this transfiguration Sunday, may we each be reminded again and again that your beams of heaven go with us wherever we go and to always pray for your kingdom to come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
We pray for that now as we join together in praying the prayer you taught us to say..
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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