Holy Week ~ Tuesday ~ Prayer

 

God of Tuesdays when there are no worship services to prepare, put on a tie, or attend.  Here we are amid a week that doesn’t make linear, logical since.  Why did You, O God, face the cross?  What is this gospel of worshipping, following, a suffering God??  How in the world is that going to trend on social media??  We like heroes and sheroes, people who succeed.  No wonder, O God, we turned Your suffering into a transaction.  No wonder we preach about a debt to be paid, that fits so neat and tidy into an economic model we can hold and control.  We are okay with transformation if someone else goes first.  We still hold our faint and fading, “Hosannas” vulnerably close.  The more that word sinks and settles in the cobweb corners of our souls, Hosanna can disrupt us.  Hosanna keeps blowing the dust-off boxes we crammed into corner hoping, O God, You wouldn’t notice or that we’d rather ignore.  On this Tuesday, we hold close our three covenants as a church.  For Your creation that we treat as a means to an end and our enjoyment.  We still see the sky, seas, trees, and land as resources to add to our wealth, rather than reflecting Your creativity.  For Your beautiful, bold crayon box of races, O God, that too often we treat others as less because of the color of their skin.  For the ways You call us beyond binary, either/or thinking, yet we are stuck and stymied by Victorian theology of sexuality and morality.  We are still trying to prove/earn Your love that is always prodigal and poured out regardless of who we love.  Help us, O God, as Your church that we would not just point out the places we fall short and falls flat.  We don’t want to just criticism and complain.  We prayerfully ask for our Hosannas to take flesh and skin and breath in us as You would guide.  We long for each of us to live our covenants in relationship with You, for the sake of the whole world You so love.  God guide us and keep us curious about how we can collaborate and conspire with You in the kitchen of life that is this day.  In the name of the One whose life is the recipe of faith, the wayless way, Jesus the Christ.  Amen.