End of the Week Prayer

 

So, here we are, O God, at the end of this week having turned the calendar to November.  Halloween candy is on clearance.  Christmas trees are on sale.  The year is dwindling as nighttime falls earlier outside our windows each day. 

 

I trust that You are here, O God. 

I long for Your wisdom to infuse and inform my life.

I pray for Your presence to be the priority on my “to-do list”.

I rest in the fact that my desire to be caught up in Your liberating love is the openness You need to enter my life this day.

 

As I look back on the week, I give thanks for (fill in two moments that brought a smile to your face).

As I rewind the past five days, I have felt the energy of emotion in my heart (name and notice some of the emotions sitting on the shelves of your soul).

As I examine where I’ve been, this person and place comes to my mind (sit with an experience from the last week.)

And I look to the coming days, I pray You would go before, beside, and behind me when facing (name an upcoming event where you need God to arrive first in that situation).

 

Let me be open to burning bushes today, Your call to stand alongside those pushed to the fringes and fray, and live my life in ways that awaken delight in me and all those I encounter.  In the name of the One You sent to show us life, Jesus the Christ.  Amen.