March 10, 2015
Psalm 51
Create a clean heart for me, God;
put a new, faithful spirit deep inside me!
Please don’t throw me out of your
presence;
please don’t take your holy spirit away from me.
Return the joy of your salvation to me
and sustain me with a willing spirit.
Empty Me
Gracious
and Holy One,
Creator
of all things
and
of emptiness,
I
come to you
full
of much that clutters and distract,
stifles
and burdens me,
and
makes me a burden to others.
Empty me now
of
gnawing dissatisfactions,
of
anxious imaginings,
of
fretful preoccupations,
of
nagging prejudices,
of
old scores to settle,
and
of the arrogance of being right.
Empty me
of
the ways I unthinkingly think of myself as powerless,
as
a victim,
as
determined by sex, age, race,
as
being less than I am,
or
as other than yours.
Empty me
of
the disguises and lies
in
which I hide myself from other people
and
from my responsibility
for
my neighbors and for the world.
Hollow out in me a space
in
which I will find myself,
find
peace and a whole heart,
a
forgiving spirit and holiness,
the
springs of laughter,
and
the will to reach boldly
for
abundant life for myself
and
the whole human family.
Ted
Loder. Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle. Augsburg Books.
1981.
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