Prayer To Accompany Sermon October 4, 2009 "Thou Mine Inheritance"

Dearest Lord our beloved, Abba, be gracious to us this day and invite us to dance in the company of your Holy threesome. We come before you praising your name, offering our thanks for unfailing, never flagging devotion to and your patience with our feeble efforts to be more than creatures who live by instinct. Forgive us when we are arrogant, proud, or picky. Forgive us when we react to the barbs of those who goad and annoy. Forgive us when we allow ourselves to be drained of compassion leaving us little to care for those truly in need. Restrain our desire for adulation, our need for the world’s approval or affirmation. We admit we find comfort in the more predictable things of life, perhaps believing that if we keep our present course nothing new will be expected of us. Remind us, most wise and wonderful One, that you are always doing something new and with each new day we are given a chance to get onboard and join you in the glorious adventure of today. In the name of the Christ we pray. Amen.