NIGHT PRAYER: Monday 2/22

 

(I'm not facing any big decisions in my life at the moment but a good friend is dealing with one right now and so I wrote this prayer for him.  All of us here in our virtual chapel make decisions every day, large and small: perhaps you'll find this prayer helpful for yourselves or for someone you know...)

I have a big decision to make, Lord 

and I need your help…

 

Open my mind and my eyes

to see all sides as objectively as I can,

to weigh the pros and cons fairly

and to see with your wisdom

the way I should go…

 

Open my ears, Lord,

to listen with attentive discernment

to the advice others are offering me…

 

Open my imagination, Lord,

not to awfulize one choice or another

but to play out the best

of all possibilities…

 

Open my heart, Lord,

my inner sense of things,

my intuition,

to discover where your Spirit leads me

and to make the choice 

you'd have me make…

 

If this were an easy decision to make

I wouldn't be praying about it, Lord,

but it's not easy, it's hard,

it's complicated 

and its implications are serious 

and long-lasting...

 

So I pray for the courage, Lord,

to make my decision with hope,

with trust in you and with confidence

that you'll walk with me always

on whatever path I choose...

 

Protect me, Lord, while I toss and turn

and through the night while I'm asleep

that awake, I might keep watch with you

and asleep, rest in your peace...

 

Amen.   

 

Hymn of the Holy Spirit by Pat Barrett

 

 

Holy Spirit, guide my vision 

Help me see the way You see 

Always Jesus, ever Jesus 

Christ in all as Christ in me 

 

Holy Spirit, guide my speaking 

Words of grace and truth abound 

Let my lips be filled with stories 

Of the mercy that I've found 

 

   You’re the light, You’re my path 

   You’re the shepherd of my soul 

   All I am, all I have 

   Holy Spirit, lead me on 

 

Holy Spirit, guide my hearing 

Wake my ears to words You speak 

In the thunder, in the stillness 

Let Your voice be clear to me 

 

Holy Spirit, lead me onward 

Walking through the great unknown 

Trusting, leaning, holding, clinging 

Till the day You lead me home

 

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