Evening Prayer

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Evening Prayer

• Tuesday, October 14th

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Opening Sentence and Prayer

• Let us pray
• O God who loves everything that lives,
• and whose immortal spirit is in all created life,
  
• free us from thoughts that would separate us from
  you,
• from words that harm the soul
• and from errors that invite darkness into the
  world.

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• From inner confusions over what is good
• grant us a clarity of vision,
• that we may see your creative wisdom
• pervading all things
• and each day making life new.

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• In the stillness of evening,
• let us glimpse within us and among us
• the light that is an emanation of your glory
• that we may be renewed once again,
• O God,
• in the image of your goodness.

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• Holy God,
• holy and mighty,
• holy and immortal,
• have mercy upon us.
• Silence

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Song for reflection
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Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession

• We give thanks , O God,
• for all that is good
• within us,
• between us,
• and around us,
• for the beauty of the skys constellations,
• for patterns of kindness and creativity among
  people,
• for generosities that shine in human lives,

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• all these things conceived by your wisdom
• and from the beginning brought forth in love.
• We give thanks that life has flowed from you
• and to you returns,
• that we are born not of mere chance
• to pass like traces of a cloud,
• but to share in the eternity of your life,
• and that the world is ruled
• not by earths elements and heavens stars,
• but by the wisdom and greatness that created
  them.

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• Protect us and all people, O God,
• from destructive forces within and without,
• from powers that see no meaning
• beyond possessing and enjoying.
• And grant us eyes to discern
• the great spirits of our time
• in who love and wisdom are found,
• so that as we seek new beginnings
• for ourselves and for our world we may be guided
  by their understanding
• and by their hope.

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• Free prayer and offerings
• Leader
• Lord, teach us to pray together
• Our Father
• Amen.
• From An Earthful of Glory by Philip Newell