Prayer to Accompany the Sermon July 26, 2009: "The First Boy Scout"

Our most wondrous and amazing Abba, gathering here in the company of our family of faith we are relieved, delighted to utter words of praise and prayers of thanksgiving. Too rarely we speak beyond Sunday about your wondrous deeds and your abiding patience and love. All too often we sputter words of frustration, anxiety, and dread on Monday until we get warmed up for the week ahead. We make our promise this morning that we will tune our hearts and minds to your everyday presence with us. We will rise to greet each and every new day not begrudging the morning or regretting the night. We will treasure and savor the minutes gifted to us. With your help, Lord, God, we will find all of the ways to take pleasure in our work, learn to value the efforts of others, and engage in living this life fully, responsibly, authentically and graciously. Truly, our hope, our joy and our peace are in you; forgive us when we forget, in the name of the Christ we pray. Amen