This is a prayer written by my friend and former professor, Randy Harris, for the beginning of the new school year:
O God,
All of our instincts tell us to pray for nothing but good things for this semester,
But we know that this is self serving and short sighted.
So we pray that you will give us whatever we need to be your people.
We pray
You will give us enough joy to make us cheerful and serene
and enough sorrow to make us big-hearted and compassionate.
You will give us enough success to make us confident and hopeful,
and enough failure to keep us humble and dependent on you
You will give us enough of the cross to make us like Jesus
and that resurrection power will always be present in our lives.
We pray, O God, that you will hold us so close to your side
that the Evil One cannot touch us.
And that as you place your hands of blessing on us we will become your hands to bless the world.
In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
2 comments:
My life continues to revolve around the school calendar and I'm ok with that. It's one more "new" beginning I get each year and I find I always benefit from those times of newness. Thanks for sharing this prayer. It's beautiful and timely.
hello! thank you for the blog comment. i miss seeing you guys as well. a girl came into the library the other day who was really nice. she said she had just moved to austin and was looking for a good church. i recommended yours, and looked up the website for her. she seemed interested.
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