Sketch Prayers

A sketch and a prayer for Indigenous People's Day

O God of all time and all people,
What stories do we carry?
What truths are fading from museum walls,
From textbooks, from memory itself –
Erased, lost, unwritten?

Give us courage, O God, to claim the stories of our people,
To name whose lands hold us
To stand with the first people,
To write the truths some fear to tell.
For who are we without our truths, our stories?

Might we become the people who didn’t look away?
Could memory be our medicine
If we choose the harder healing?
May we heed your invitation
To truth-telling, to generous-loving,
To Beloved Community.

Let it be so.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes.
It is the pause that transforms.
Walter Brueggemann

Help us, O God
To stop
To really stop
To remember the power of holy rest
To know deeply that we are yours.

Amen

Ground us this day, O God
In your love -
Your tangible
Intimate
Immeasurable love -
That gift that binds us one to another
That binds us to you
Full contact
Messy
Generous
Blessed
Love.
IRL love.
Love incarnate.

Amen


Image from : Gerondelis, A. (2018). Open our Hearts: Daily prayeres for Lent and Holy Week. Glasgow: Wild Good Publications.