A Good Friday Blessing in
the midday night
O dear God, we’re in
darker places than we’ve ever known
God, light the way for
this whole sad earth, for the helpless ones, and for me.
Night has fallen on the
light of the world and betrayal seems the order of the day.
Love itself is handed
over to brutal ignorance and cunning that loves the dark.
O God, You still chose to
feel what we feel— how it is to die totally alone, ghastly to behold in your
outstretched arms of the cross. Are You gathering to Yourself every hideous
thing in this world right now? Every failure, travesty, and wrong?
God have mercy. Christ,
have mercy. Spirit, have mercy.
Blessed are we who show
up at the cross today with a prayer for God to turn things right side up again!
Blessed are we who bow and wait for the morning of the world. The light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5
God have mercy. Christ
have mercy. Spirit have mercy.
Open your hands. receive
it– love that comes gently as the dawn.
Our service today is at
noon in the sanctuary and online.
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