Tag: Way

Prayer and the way we are

 

“Prayer is not only a matter of saying the right sort of words to the right kind of God. Our being is involved, the way we are.”

by Eugene Peterson,
from Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer, p. 24
 

A prayer

inspired by Psalm 1

King of all the earth,
Creator of the universe,
Holy Triune God,
from everlasting to everlasting,
      you are Lord.

Your law brings life, O Lord,
      and we meditate on it day and night;

Happy are we when we walk in your ways, O Lord.

You are a rich stream of living waters,
      and we would immerse ourselves in you;

Happy are we when we walk in your ways, O Lord.

You bring forth fruit in due season
      and establish the work of our hands;

Happy are we when we walk in your ways, O Lord.

Who is like our God,
      the One whose ways are full of life?

Happy are we when we walk in your ways, O Lord.

This is our God, the Holy One.
Come before him with thanksgiving
      and offer him the sacrifice of praise.

 
from Oratio Contemplativa, posted on re:worship

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Lord, teach me your way

A prayer

Lord,
teach me your way of treating others –
sinners, children, Pharisees, Pilates and Herods,
and also John the Baptists.

Teach me your way of eating and drinking,
and how to act when I’m tired from work and need rest.

Teach me compassion for the suffering, the poor, the blind, and the lame.
You who shed tears, show me how to live my deepest emotions.
Above all, I want to learn how you endured your Cross.

Teach me your way of looking at people:
the way you glanced at Peter after his denial,
the way you touched the heart of the rich young man
and the hearts of your disciples.

I would like to meet you as you really are,
since you change those who really know you.
If only I could hear you speak
as when you spoke in the synagogue of Capernaum
or on the Mount of Beatitudes!

Give me grace to live my life, within and without,
the way you lived your life, O Lord. Amen.

 
— written by Pedro Arrupe, SJ, posted on re:worship

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My way to you


 

A prayer

based on ‘Suscipe me’,
a prayer made by a novice on entering a Benedictine Community

 
Accept me, O Lord,
just as I am,
in my frailty,
my inadequacy,
my contradictions
     and my confusions.

Accept me,
with all those discordant currents
     that pull me in so many directions.

Accept all of this,
and help me so to live with what I am,
that what I am
     may become my way to you.

 
from The Book of a Thousand Prayers by Angela Ashwin, #935

Restless / restore
Weep with those who weep
Up to us
 

In the Jesus Way we pray


 

The Lord’s Prayer (a paraphrase)

based on Matthew 6:9-13, Luke 11:2-4

O God, you love us like a good parent,
      and are present in every aspect of our existence.
May your nature become known and respected by all.
May your joy, peace, wholeness and justice
      be the reality for everyone
            as we live by the Jesus Way.
Give us all that we really need to live every day for you.
And forgive us our failures as we forgive others for their failures.
Keep us from doing those things which are not of you,
      and cause us always to be centred on your love.
For you are the true reality in this our now,
      and in all our future.
In the Jesus Way we pray.
 
~ by D. Sorril, posted on re:worship

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