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SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

GREETING (adapted from Psalm 118:24)

This is the day that you have made, O God.

We rejoice and are glad in it.

HYMN 132 “All My Hope Is Firmly Grounded”

PSALM 50

PRAYER

Ours is an unusual planet, God, with three fourths of the surface covered by water.

Along some shores, toddlers can wade out and play in the ocean waves,

but at its deepest point, the ocean’s bottom is almost seven miles down.

Six thousand adults could stand on one another and not reach the surface.

That is deep, frighteningly deep, to those swimming in the tossing waves.

Yet with all this water, we never worry about it covering all the land where we live.

We have seen devastating floods reach for miles across fields and cities,

and terrifying tsunamis have roared for miles beyond our quiet shorelines.

We have watched people sink beneath the waters, never to be seen again.

But we still have this confidence that there will always be some dry land.

Every time we see a rainbow, we are reminded of why we are so confident about land.

You have made a covenant with every living creature that draws breath.

Whether clothed in skin or membrane, scales or feathers, hair or shell,

you have promised to never again destroy all the life on earth with water.

And so we trust that there will always be dry land where life will survive.

We have complete confidence in the promise you made to Noah and his descendants.

So why do we not have the same confidence in your other promises, God?

Why do we turn from you to sink our trust into powerless and false gods?

We did not just get off the boat. We are not naïve or ignorant. Or are we?

Today, God, let us plant our feet with complete faith in your every promise.

Amen.

GATHER WITH A CONGREGATION OF CHRISTIANS

TO CONTINUE THE WORSHIP OF GOD

ON THIS DAY OF JOYFUL RESURRECTION.