Prayers Monday

Thought I'd post some prayers on Mondays. Yep. No particular reason. Just want to.

We are all in hock


Christ is risen!
You have come into a world of debt where we are all in hock.
We pray daily that you forgive our debts.
We boldly qualify our prayer by the condition of how we treat our neighbors.
So we pray for the cancellation of our debts
and the debts of the poor
of the weak
of the imprisoned
of the abused.
Your Easter Jubilee has broken our old patterns of debt and credit,
and made us rich beyond our acknowledgement.
You are the one who was rich and became Friday poor,
that by being made poor,
you would make many rich.
We are among those who have been made rich.....
along with our neighbors.
For your Sunday wealth that is our new beginning,
we give you deep and exuberant thanks.
Amen.


Walter Brueggeman "Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: prayers of Walter Brueggemann"