Sending Song - Metta Prayer ECUMENICAL MORNING PRAYER

Words: Traditional Buddhist Prayer

Music: Karen Warren-Severson and Paul Severson, ©2006.

Call to Worship
Leader: O God, you summon the day to dawn,
you teach the morning to waken the earth.
All: Great is your name.
Great is your love.

Leader: For you the valleys shall sing for joy,

the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
All: Great is your name.
Great is your love.

Leader: For you the rulers of the earth shall bow,

the poor and persecuted shall shout for joy.
Blessing
All: Great is your name.
Leader: May God bless us; Great is your love.
May God keep us in the Spirit’s care
and guide our lives with love. Leader: Your love and mercy shall last forever,
All: May Christ’s warm welcome fresh as the morning, sure as the sunrise.
Shine from our hearts All: Great is your name.
And Christ’s own peace prevail. Great is your love.
Through this and every day. Amen.
Psalm 79: 8, 9, 11, and 13 We bring to God our concerns for today . . .
God in your mercy,
Left: Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins. HEAR OUR PRAYER
Remember not against us the iniquities of the past;
may your compassion quickly come to us, Leader: We bring to God the people of today . . .
for we are brought very low. God in your mercy,
HEAR OUR PRAYER
Right: Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.
Help us, O God our savior, Leader: And let us pray for ourselves . . .
because of the glory of your name; God in your mercy,
Deliver us and pardon our sins HEAR OUR PRAYER
for your name's sake.
All: Catch me in my anxious scurrying, Lord,
Left: Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins. and hold me in this Lenten season:
Let the prisoners' sighing come before you; Hold my feet to the fire of your grace
with your great power free those doomed to death. and make me attentive to my mortality
That I may begin to die now
Right: Then we, your people and the sheep of your pasture, To those things that keep me
will give thanks to you forever; From living with you
through all generations we will declare your praise. And with my neighbors on this earth;
To grudges and indifference,
All: Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins. To certainties that smother possibilities,
To my fascination with false securities,
Sung Prayer - Lord Have Mercy Stefan Andre Waligur, ©2002 To my addiction to sweatless dreams,
To my arrogant insistence on how it has to be,
Scripture Micah 6:8
To my corrosive fear of dying someday
Reflection Which eats away the wonder of living this day,
And the adventure of losing my life
Prayers for the day
In order to find it in you.
Leader: Let us prepare ourselves for the day before us, In Christ’s name we pray,
and claim its potential sent by God. Amen.
Let us pray.
Prayer adapted from the Ted Loder’s Guerillas of Grace