Prayer Mondays: Brueggemann

Re- text us


We confess you to be text-maker,
text giver,
text-worker,
and we find ourselves addressed
by your making, giving, working.
So now we bid you, re-text us by your spirit.
Re-text us away from all our shallow loves,
into your overwhelming gracefulness.
Re-text us away from our thin angers,
into your truth telling freedom.
Retext us away from our lean hopes,
into your tidal promises.
Give us attentive ears,
responsive hearts,
receiving hands;
Re-text us to be your liberated partners
in joy and obedience,
in risk and gratitude.
Re-text us by your word become wind. Amen


Walter Brueggemann "Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth"

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