PRAYER IN PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP: Thanks be to you O God that I have risen this day to the rising of life itself. May it be a day of blessing, O God of every gift, a day of new beginnings given. Help me to avoid sin and the source of every sin to forsake. And as the mist scatters from the crest of the hills may each ill haze clear from my soul O God. Amen (celtic prayers from Iona)
CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Gather us in, the lost and the lonely, the broken and breaking, the tired and the aching who long for the nourishment found at your feast.
Many: Gather us in,
One: the proud and pretentious, the sure and superior, the never inferior, who long for the leveling found at your feast.
Many: Gather us in,
One: the bright and the bustling, the stirrers, the shakers, the kind laughter makers who long for the deeper joys found at your feast.
Many: Gather us in,
One: from corner or limelight, from mansion or campsite, from fears and obsession, from tears and depression, from untold excesses, from treasured successes, to meet, to eat, to be given a seat, be joined to the vine, be offered new wine, become like the least, be found at the feast.
All: Gather us in.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
O God, to repent is to turn away from everything that separates us from you. We are imperfect people, and yet you love us. We are distracted people, and yet you come near to us. We are lost, and yet you find us. Draw near to us, in your saving presence and power, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
For Susan Hayes sermon "Losing It", click here.
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