Prayer for Our Church

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, February 19, 2006

Come, Spirit of Wholeness and Peace, and abide with us at this time and in this place.

A long road-- more than two and one-half centuries long-- has brought this community of faith to this day: 262 years of the full flow of human emotions; 262 years of good times and bad; years of abundance and years of scarcity; times of joy and times of sadness.

The past offers its gifts generously
with strong hands of bold and free-spirited souls
who dared to offer their world (and ours)
a liberating vision of hope and courage.
May we remember gratefully this day
those gifts of their generous spirit
ours for the borrowing in our time:

May this church ever, always be
a place of love and caring, for ourselves and the world around us.
May it be a place for boundless searching, for thirsting after knowledge.
May it be a place of heated discussion and cool re-fresh-ment;
a place where differing truths are aired openly and freely, but a place of reconciliation and friendship and compassion as well.

May we always, ever be a household of faith where our worldly preoccupation with power can give way, time after time, to the magnificent, amazing workings of grace. May we this day, each one of us, rededicate ourselves to our highest ideals and most noble aspirations; to the call of a faith as big as the whole world; to the call of a faith as expansive as the universe itself.

Amen.

jbs
4/2/2000 - 2/19/2006

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