NIGHT PRAYER: Wednesday 710

 I know I don't need to tell you, Lord,

    how warm it is, how hazy, hot and humid...

 

But it's July:

    summertime in a climate-changed world

        - what else should I expect?

 

How grateful I am for my light schedule

    and AC cooled places to escape to for comfort...

 

But for some, for many,

    heat intensifies every experience

        with little prospect of respite,

so for these brothers and sisters, Lord,

    I plead and pray tonight...

 

The midday heat sweats the worker's frame

    and doubles the burden of labor...

   

Heat heightens the raw emotions     

    of those who are grieving, afraid and worried:

heat rises  in troubled hearts

    like mercury filling the glass...

Heat sharpens hunger and thirst:

    starving and parching the empty bellies

        of millions of homeless children...

Heat piques our resentment and anger

    and magnifies even the smallest annoyance...

 

Heat steams, simmers and stews

    in our tender, vulnerable hearts;

it chafes our precious memories,

    disturbing our peace of mind...

 

And so, Lord:

    at the end of this hot and humid day,

    I     pray some precious respite

    for those whose burdens intensify

        as the Celsius and Fahrenheit rise...

Send your Spirit's strong and gracious breeze

    to cool and refresh,

    console and comfort,

    soothe and relieve,

    nourish and calm,

    revive and cheer,

    restore and lift up

all whom the heat has laid low:

    who long for the shade 

        of your outstretched arms

    by the cool, deep stream

        of your mercy flowing

            swift and sweet and sure...

Send your Spirit, Lord, to quench the thirst   

    of all souls parched and dry, 

withering 'neath the sun that burns     

    in the barren day-to-day desert

        that life can sometimes seem...

Refresh us, Lord!  

Send your rain to slake our thirst,

    to bathe us in your peace!

Cool us with your Spirit's wings

    beating all around us,

filling us with life again,

    with hope and peace and joy...

   

Protect us, Lord while we're awake

    and watch over us while we sleep

that awake, we might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

Springs of Life  by Ginny Owens

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How many days, Lord, have I walked in this wilderness?
A thirsty pilgrim with no water to drink.
And this barren place is making me crazy,
In my desperation, I am forced to think.

 
Seems like I have spent so much time searchin'
In a dry and weary land where there's no Truth.
But I think I'm finally realizin',
That my only hope of water is the well that comes from You,

 

So, rain down Your love upon me
Pour out Your mercy on me
Please won't You take me to Your springs of life
'Cause I'm dying for deliverance, only You can save me,
Oh, I'm waitin', please won't You take me,
To Your springs of life.

 

Oh God, You are my God,
And my spirit seeks You,
But my flesh has failed You time and time again.
And now I've chosen this desert when Your love was waitin',
But Your stubborn child longs to understand

 
So I'll not waste another minute searchin'
In a dry and weary land where there's no truth, 

'Cause I think I'm finally realizin'
That my only hope of water is the well that comes from You, 

 

So, rain down Your love upon me
Pour out Your mercy on me
Please won't You take me to Your springs of life
'Cause I'm dying for deliverance, only You can save me,
Oh, I'm waitin', please won't You take me,
To Your springs of life.

 

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