Prayer

 

Loving God

in that deep down

sacred place

we call our souls

 

where silence holds every word

and every word is shaped by the deeper silence

 

may we wait with you there

within that love

that needs no name

 

yet we know

and recognise 

and calls us

as your own

 

So we give thanks

for what is familiar

certain

assured 

in you

that grace

that forgiveness

that transformation

unconditionally given

universally made

 

yet 

may we meet you

on the edge 

of what is familiar to us

that place between what we know

and what we yet be

 

that we might stretch our faith

deepen our experience

in seeking you by other shores

that we might journey closer in you

O God

who has many names

and many traditions

 

In this daring place 

where our faith feel vulnerable

and how we speak of you is challenged

may we reimagine you

with images and words

unfamiliar to us

yet connect us to others

 

(silence)

 

Yet

we pause here

and breath you in

 

and yes

we recognise

what is familiar to us all

the love that reaches us

wherever we find ourselves

the love that invites us

into always doing a new thing

the love that holds us

in all of lives experiences

the love that speaks in us

when all other words have been used up

 

Loving 

Graceful

Generous

midwife of stars

and companion on the way

 

So be it

Amen