Tag: Tears

Tears of joy


 

Call to worship

This is the day:
when tears are wiped away;
shattered hearts are mended;
fears are replaced with joy.

This is the day the Lord:
rolls away the stone of fear;
throws off death’s clothes;
goes ahead of us into God’s future.

This is the day the Lord has made:
death has no fear for us;
sin has lost its power over us;
God opens the tombs of our hearts
to fill us with life.

This is the day – Easter Day!
Christ is Risen! Hallelujah!

 
~ written by Thom M. Shuman, and posted on Lectionary Liturgies.

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No more tears

A prayer

O God our creator,
whose good earth is entrusted
to our care and delight and tenderness,
we pray:

For all who are in captivity to debt,
whose lives are cramped by fear
from which there is no turning
except through abundant harvest.

May those who sow in tears
reap with shouts of joy.

For all who depend on the earth
for their daily food and fuel,
whose forests are destroyed
for the profits of a few.

May those who sow in tears
reap with shouts of joy.

For all who labour in poverty,
who are oppressed by unjust laws,
who are banned for speaking the truth,
who long for a harvest of justice.

May those who sow in tears
reap with shouts of joy.

For all who are in captivity
to greed and waste and boredom,
whose harvest joy is chocked
with things they do not need.

May those who sow in tears
reap with shouts of joy.

Turn us again from our captivity
and restore our vision,
that our mouth may be filled with laughter
and our tongue with singing.

 
by Janet Morley,
from The Book of a Thousand Prayers by Angela Ashwin, #886

From the blog
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Weep with those who weep


View from Casa la Salle, Rome

 

“When others are happy, be happy with them, and when they are sad, be sad.”

 

 

A prayer

from Papua New Guinea

Lord Jesus Christ,
    you told the women of Jerusalem not to weep for you
    but to weep for themselves.

Be with women who suffer violence in their homes
    as they weep for their sons caught up in the violence.

Be with women and children trapped in prostitution and poverty.

Be with the women who live in domestic violence,
    who have learnt not to weep for their own pains,
    who have suffered so long they are numb.

Strengthen your Church in its care and support of all who are in pain.

Help us all to be sensitive and caring,
    for you are the Lord who suffers and serves.

 
from A Procession of Prayers: Meditations and Prayers from Around the World by John Carden, p. 243

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Tears on the way

A prayer

Sometimes we don’t realize the intensity of the things for which we pray, Lord.  Keep us courageously mindful that your way is laden with tears on the way to resurrection. Amen.

from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Enuma Okoro, p. 169

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