This prayer is my reflection on the following texts from today’s lectionary texts: Psalm 130, 2 Cor. 8:7-14, Mark 5: 21:43.
Out of the depths I call to you–
knowing that if you counted my sins, I could not stand.
My soul waits,
More than the watch man waits,
more than the watch man waits.
Lord our friends and loved ones die,
they get sick and old and we watch them suffer
for years and wonder why.
We see people healthy and full of life reduced by disease
to a shadow of their former self.
My soul waits,
More than the watch man waits,
more than the watch man waits.
When you wore our flesh
and drank the dregs of humanity
you healed those who suffered year after year,
you beheld grieving parents and raised the dead.
We long to see your healing and life in the lives of those we care about.
We grieve and ache as we watch our friends in anguish.
and yet we know that with you there is mercy
redemption–plenteous redemption.
Lead us into your spacious way.
My soul waits,
More than the watch man waits,
more than the watch man waits.
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