NIGHT PRAYER: Thursday 2/15

Lent is a season of repentance, 

a season for taking an inventory of our hearts

and acknowledging our sins,

how we've failed in loving God and one another.

Lent is a season of repentance,

a time to pray for God for healing mercy.

Let's pray tonight, then, 

and remember how great is the mercy of God...

Lord of all mercy,
even before I sin,
before I even think of failing
    to abide by your word,
long before I fall from grace,
even then, your mercy is waiting, ready
    to pardon and forgive me,
    to mend me and to heal me,
    to lift me up into your arms...

I don't deserve such mercy -
    no good I've ever done
    could merit such a love
    as yours for me -
and yet your mercy and your love
are always there for me
and simply for the asking...

I can’t then help but wonder, Lord:
    who waits for my mercy?
    my pardon?
    my love?

Who waits on the other end

    of my long held grudges and resentments?

Who waits outside the door of my anger?

Who waits, Lord, on the other side

    of my "silent treatment?"

Who waits to be welcomed back into my life?

Who waits to hear my voice,

    to hear once more a loving word from me?  

Who waits for my compassion and kindness,

    for my patient understanding,

    for my pardon and my mercy? 

 

Who waits for my mercy, Lord,

    as I wait for yours? 

And since your mercy waits for me
    (even before I think to seek it)

 so I must not hold back
    what mercy waits in my heart
        for those who wait my pardon...

 

If your love for me is so generous

    must I not be generous with others?

Must I not stand, as you do, waiting,

    ready to forgive,

    to speak a word of kindness,

    to mend and heal what's broken,

    to welcome back to my embrace

        those who have offended me?

 

Help me remember how you taught us to pray, Lord:

    Forgive us our trespasses

        as we forgive those

            who trespass against us... 

 

And so I pray tonight:
    grant the grace I need
        to hold within in my heart
    a waiting store of  mercy

        for any and for all
            who wait for my forgiveness...

 

Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake

    and watch over me while I sleep

that awake, I might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

 

Amen.

 

Tonight's song is a simple song, set with instrumental

interludes: a mantra  for helping us pray for God's mercy,

and for the grace to be merciful as the Lord is merciful...

 

Lord, In Your Mercy  by Val Goldsack

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Lent mercy 2016   

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