Sunday's Prayer (colors of grace)
- Bob Guffey
- 2 hours ago
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O lovely Christ who
breathed life anew
into a child’s still form
O lonely Christ who
endured agony and suffering
not just from the cross
but because of empathy
with Your beloved world still
O lively Christ who
calls and commands, who
invites and admonishes
our leaving familiar,
habitual prejudice
to follow playfully,
lovingly, sometimes
doubtfully, traumatically,
through need and brokenness,
finally to wholeness
and home in You
O LORD
On this holy day when your people gather
in so many places, holding so many
positions, and so many points of view
would you redeem our differences,
removing imperfections when it comes to
how we think and love and care for
others in your family?
Would you take the best of our differences
and make of us a beautiful window with
marvelous colors through which others may
look and see Jesus’ kingdom of grace, mercy,
justice and compassion becoming real –
many colors reflecting one light: the light of
your holy presence and redeeming love
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, many
colors in the window of the sanctuary of
your Spirit
many colors of grace,
as in heaven
so on earth
at least for a day
with a promise for eternity
Would you?
AMEN.
- Bob Guffey
(Located in Lisburn First Presbyterian Church, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the Resurrection Window is made almost entirely of shards of the original windows, which were destroyed by an Irish Republican Army [IRA] bombing on August 5, 1981. To see the entire window and read the church's story, visit: https://tinyurl.com/acas73yb)
