Baptismal Prayer

 

God, You sang and surfed over the watery chaos in the beginning.  Sing to the places and spaces that slosh and surge with chaos within and around me.  God, You set a rainbow as a promise in the midst of the flood, let Your colors of creations remind me of Your presence as I try to keep my head above water.  You wrestled with Jacob and blessed him (and set his hip out of place), but bless me in our holy wrestling God, even as I limp right now.  Sea parting, tree planting by waters, weeping, always washing over us God, let Your baptismal love drench me right now.  Saturate and soak me in ways that renew me to be full of Your love.  When the voices of my inner critic start to clamor, help me breathe.  When the world out there seems too uncontrollable and chaotic, help me be.  When I want to run away, help me be a presence in the world in a way that shines and shares the truth that You are not finished.  Meet me in this moment and every moment in the days to come.  Remind me that You call each of us, “Beloved” to our aching hearts and wanting souls and less than glimmer lives.  Let each of us rest in You now and in the days to come.  Amen.