A friend of mine compiled this prayer of approach from various sources for last Sunday’s service, and something about the compassionate being expected and the kingdom of love on its way touched me deeply.
May you experience the kingdom of love this week wherever you find yourself:
Come into this place, where the ordinary is sanctified,
The human is celebrated, the compassionate is expected.
Come into this place.
Together we make it a holy place, with our every act of worship.
God, help us to listen to our inner spirit;
To the inner yearning to belong to something greater than ourselves.
Help us to listen to our inner spirits
And find there the presence of your good encouraging spirit.
The kingdom of love is coming because:
Somewhere, someone is kind when others are unkind.
Somewhere, someone shares with another in need.
Somewhere, someone is patient- and waits in love.
Somewhere, someone returns good for evil,
Somewhere, someone serves another, in love.
Somewhere, someone is calm in a storm.
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