Friday Morning Prayer

 

God of a new month, where what is unresolved from April can linger and leave an imprint, meet us in ways that we sense Your presence as Christ met the disciples on the way to Emmaus.  We pray for this unfolding season of Easter, the invitation to holy foolishness that we are still not certain we can adopt/adapt into our life.  We confess that it is easier to go along with the cynicism and criticism of culture.  That it is more acceptable to point out the flaws and foibles than to embrace the ambiguity or appear naïve.  We confess that we do prefer to cling to our certainties than admit the “I don’t know-ness” of life.  We are not only travelers on the road together, honestly, God we are still wandering in the wilderness like Moses and your people in Exodus.  We grumble and mumble for bread and water, not feeling like there is ever enough, OR that we are enough.  We tremble at the unexplainable ways You arrive in our lives.  We still make idols of workshops, travel, zoom classes, and endless opportunities and new iphones that promise us our best life ever.  Help us, O God, for we cannot help ourselves.  We need You to interrupt us with truths that will baffle us but also delight us.  Continue to go with us in these days as we travel the wayless way and thank you, God, for Your presence and the companions who are with us.  Amen.