Larry Piper's Slothoughts

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Prayer for Friday, July 8, 2011—but really for Saturday, July 9 · 9 July 2011

Hi God,

Jesus is reported to have said,
“For where two or three have
gathered together in My name,
I am there in their midst.”
I’m thinking that
“gathered together in My name”
might mean gathered to do Your work,
i.e. to serve You:
“to seek justice and love kindness,
and walk humbly with You”.
That kind of stuff.

So what about
a lone geezer and a dog?
Would You (he) deign
still to be there with them,
if they thought they were
going about the work of
spreading the Kingdom of Heaven—
but it was just a geezer and an old dog—
not two or three real people?

Sometimes it doesn’t feel so,
though, I must admit that
it did feel divine this afternoon
to spend a few hours
on the deck with Brewster
(and I thank You for that blessing).
So that works for the
“walk humbly with your God” part.
But, I’m not sure it helps much with the
“…seek justice and love kindness” part,
the morning’s agenda.
Somehow, I think
we’d all of us be more apt
to work to seek justice,
and also to love kindness,
if we actually could feel that
You were there with us
to feel your presence in our lives.

So that’s my prayer today,
that You help us
to feel Your presence in our lives,
and that this feeling of presence
will then indeed help us
“to seek justice and love kindness”
(and also learn to be humble).
I also ask that You, please,
have mercy on my soul,
    lacking-in-justice,
    lacking-in-kindness,
    lacking-in-humbleness
sinner though I be.

Amen

scriptural references
Matt. 18:20
Micah 6:8

— lgpiper

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