A Well-Spring of Hope
Sunday Collect – May 15, 2022
Jessica Jacks – Happy Sun
We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something – with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.
—Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Quotes
COLLECT
A recap/summary of the week’s prayers and contemplations
MONDAY
We celebrated signs of hope in Monday Whatever list of all things true, honest, just, pure, lovely, gracious, excellent, and worthy of praise.
TUESDAY
We spread hope across the generations.
WEDNESDAY
We offered blessings of beatitudes of full of hope.
THURSDAY
We read God’s messages of hope in the words of Ranier Marie Rilke.
FRIDAY
We discovered a springtime of hope with Edna Lewis.
SATURDAY
We practiced our weekly examen of hope.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
The Abba Prayer by Rex E. Hunt
Gracious Spirit,
Who loves us like a mother,
Whose realm is blooming among us now.
And within.
We pray that your compassion guide us in every action.
Give us what we need for each day,
and help us to be satisfied with the miracle of that alone.
Forgiver, whose embrace brings us to wholeness without our asking,
May we reconcile ourselves to one another in humility.
And may we cancel the crushing debts that imprison our neighbours
So that communities of joy and health may flourish.
May we neither profit from nor ignore evil.
But ever work to thwart it with non-violence
As we co-create the realm of peace in this world.
Now and each day.
[Amen]