The following is the prayer I created for Prayers for the People for the Second Sunday after Easter at Saint Adrews. It begins with a prayer from the UCC minister and poet Maren Tirabassi writing in an online experiment in doing church online. The rest is my midrash on the texts of the day. Unfortunately or fortunately I forgot the prayer at home and had to remember what I had written so the prayer the folks at church was different from this. One important difference was that I said it was the business of this church to stick its fingers in the bloody sides of suffering. I like the addition.
Gracious God, may your name and the born,broken, risen incarnation be hallowed.
Give us this day our daily breath to sing your coming,
and in our remembering of you in sacrament bread and breakfast toast,
may your will be done.
forgivers and forgiven, we come to the source of our strength against temptation
and our endurance in suffering----
for yours is the holiness and the humanness and the beauty forever...
and in our lives right now. Amen.
Creator God, who made us in your own image,
who gave us bodies and said they were good,
help us not be afraid of your son's wounds or
the still bleeding sores of your suffering people.
Give us the boldness of Thomas to stick our fingers in to your bloody side,
into the warring and hurt filled places of our world.
Sovereign God, who commands our allegiance and obedience
above all other authorities including governments,
guide us now in how to live resurrected lives
based on sharing and compassion,
working for peace with justice.
God, who poured out his love for us
who allowed himself to be broken open for us,
be patient with us as we adjust to a new life
based on mutuality and love
where death has no dominion,
where you will continue to meet us on whatever road we are walking.
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