40 Days of Prayer - Alan Thames

I am humbled to be invited to do this. Below I share a prayer from The Pattern of Our Days: Worship in the Celtic Tradition from the Iona Community by Kathy Galloway:

Lord Jesus Christ, Lover of all, trail wide the hem of your garment. Bring healing, bring peace.

For all that God can do within us, for all that God can do without us.

Thanks be to God.

For all in whom Christ lived before us, for all in whom Christ lives beside us,

Thanks be to God.

For all the Spirit wants to bring us, for where the Spirit wants to send us,

Thanks be to God.

Listen: Christ has promised to be with us in the world as in our worship.

Amen: We go to meet him.

A Personal Reflection:

As part of my work I engage regularly with a spiritual director. And one of her constant questions to me in the midst of all the times of conflict and confusion, of trials and troubles, of too much to do and too little time in which to do it is this question: What is God inviting you to do right now? As we approach another General Assembly, I believe that it is important for us to be asking that question as a community of believers: What is God inviting all of us to do right now? As we seek the answer to that question together, I believe we will indeed live out the truth of the line in the prayer that says: Christ has promised to be with us in the world as in our worship. Let us go to meet him!

Alan Thames
Executive Presbyter
Whitewater Valley Presbytery