My Hebrew instructor always starts class with an opening prayer. Funny how all the instructors here at seminary manage to pray such impacting prayers. This one from today touched me especially, so I asked if he would share it with us. I want to share it with you:
Another week's end before us and,
with it, another month's end and
nonetheless you continue, paying no attention.
Your continuing interrupts
our constant glances at clock and calendar.
The choppiness and hustle bustle
of our scheduled and compartmentalized lives
is interrupted not by another part
begging for our attention
but by a foreignness through which we think
we sense a whole.
By the grace of your abiding presence
may our parts be counted also as your whole.
In the name of that part which we confess whole,
Jesus of Nazareth, alpha and omega, Amen.
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