Morning Prayer

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Morning Prayer

• Tuesday, October 14th

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Opening Sentence and Prayer

• I prayed, and understanding was given me
• I called on God,
• and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
• Wisdom 77

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Let us pray

• O God, whose spirit fills the world
• and holds all things together,
• we come as children of the earth
• yet created for incorruption,
• as born from our mothers wombs
• yet made in the image of eternity.

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• And so we gather
• at the start of the day
• looking for the light that is brighter than the
  sun
• and the peace that is deeper than nights
  stillness.
• We seek the spirit that never dies,
• and which day by day renews the life of the earth.

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• We seek your gift of wisdom, O God,
• which no darkness or power of confusion can
  overcome,
• and pray that in seeking wisdom
• we may find it,
• and in finding it
• find friendship with you.

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• Lord have mercy upon us.
• Christ have mercy upon us.
• Lord have mercy upon us.
• Silence

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• Reading - Luke840-56
• Silence

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A Song of Wisdoms Glory

• Leader -
• Wisdom is a breath of the power of God,
• a reflection of eternal light,
• and an image of his goodness.
• All
• In every generation she passes into holy souls
• and makes them friends of God, and prophets.

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• Leader
• For God loves nothing so much as the person who
  lives with wisdom.
• All
• She is more beautiful than the sun,
• and excels every constellation of the stars.
• Leader
• Compared with the light she is found to be
  superior,
• for the day is succeeded by the night,
• but against wisdom evil does not prevail.
• Wisdom 7

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Song for Reflection and Prayer
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Closing Prayer

• Guide us, O God, on the unknown journey ahead.
• Whether it is through blessing or danger, save us
  from a deep forgetfulness
• that does not remember your guidance in the past
• and of many before us.

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• Like those who passed through the waves of the
  sea
• and through wasteland and wilderness,
• guide us too to places of promise
• and grant us eyes to see the flame of life
• that we are to follow.

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• May glimmerings of the imperishable light
• that glisten within and around us
• strengthen our hope in the long awaited day
• when the goodness of creation and your angels of
  light
• will overcome evil
• like a mighty tempest winnowing away all wrong.
• Then, O God,
• the life that is rooted in you
• will stand secure.
• Amen.
• From An Earthful of Glory by Philip Newell