Prayer: United and Uniting – A Prayer for the United Church of Christ and the World with the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

Prayers and Ponderings

United and Uniting - A Prayer for the United Church of Christ and the World written and read by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

O Love,

Form us ever anew

United and uniting

Bearing a vision larger

Than we can imagine.

Form the puzzling

Predicaments of our day

Into something precious

And beautiful and good.

Yes, take all that is scattered

Embracing every fragment

And fashion something new

Beyond what is known

In a world full of hurt

Yearning for something more

That heals, renews, and blesses.

Let no pressure

Of present predicaments

Often repeatedly rehearsed

Be greater than the grace

You pour out to cleanse.

Ready us for new creations

Even now beginning to rise

Through Your connective strength

Otherwise thought impossible

Save for Your unrelenting love.

Yes, persistent One

Awaken us to the truth

Of being already joined

By You for a joy unbelievable

Except as we entrust our lives

To You who always holds

Everyone and everything

In a marvelous mystery

Not of our making

Yet urging our consent.

O Love,

Form and re-form our hearts

For nothing less than this

Of Your unifying desire

To rise ever anew in us

In some precious proclamation

Of what You make possible

When Your people anywhere

Turn toward each other

In love, for love, by love

And say yes again to You, O Love.

Let this be the good news

Proclaimed through our life

Formed by Your uniting

To be united with others

For the healing of the world,

That Your joy may rise

Everywhere for everyone.

Amen.

Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Intro and Outro Music by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Music with prayer, Letting Go, by Moments