Prayer: Walking Holy Week’s Road with the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Walking Holy Week’s Road, A Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Loving God,
Loving God,
Lead me step by step
On this Holy Week road
And form Your will and way
In answer to the weariness
And worry of the world
So easily residing in my soul.
Let the same sustaining spirit
You poured into Christ Jesus
Be poured ever anew into me
Answering every resistance
Begging me to distraction
From Your gracious gift
Of a life fully alive
Despite twists and turns
Formed by the world
And also by me.
Yes, Love,
Walk me into this week
In reverent, holy wonder
Revealing Your mysteries
Easily overlooked or ignored
In rush to lesser things
Urging a numbness
Of heart and mind and soul.
Moment by moment
Hour by hour
Day by day
Etch Your Holy story
Anew in my heart and mind
Answering every sorrow
And anguish of the world
With just enough light
To lead me on Your path
Toward a rising unimaginable
Except by You who forms
The impossible into the probable.
Let this motion of You
Let this motion of You
Renew not only me
But Your whole creation
Whom You love into life
That Your wholeness and fullness
May emerge ever anew
In the least likely of places
In the most difficult circumstances
Using people often overlooked
By the powers and principalities
Of a world practiced in resistance
To Your Holy motion
Of resurrection renewal.
O Love,
Walk me into this week
Transforming every cross
Of the world’s making
From death into Life
Giving rise to something Holy
Beautiful, loving and good
That Your joy may finally
Find its way into the heart
Of your very human family.
Yes, Love,
Sustain me on this walk
Down Your Holy Week road
Forming my little love
With Your large Love
Into some sacred cross
Of Your Holy intersection.
Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Intro and Outro Music by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Intro and Outro Music by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
