Lord it’s good to sing.
To let the music and the words mean something
Our love for you to bubble up from the heart
And turn words and music into praise.
Lord, it’s good to sing together…
To come from our own place, our own life our own reasons to be glad…or our own place of pain or anxiety
And with others around us
To let words and music become healing and powerful
Touching and transforming..
So that because we have sung and sung together
We feel surer and stronger and upheld and blessed.
Lord, there are some people who were told long ago
When they were children
That they could not sing
And so they don’t sing…
We ask forgiveness for those who told them this terrible lie
And we thank you that you hear their singing
These people who supposedly can’t sing…
And you hear it
Beautiful and precious and full of praise…
Together we will sing the wondrous story…
OUR FATHER….
PRAYERS FOR OTHERS:
Lord how can a place of such beauty and plenty
Become a place of danger and want?
Your world is rich in resources, in loveliness, in reasons to be curious, in large things and small things…
And somehow…though you trusted us to steward it…care for it…honour it…
We have filled with the noise of battle and destruction
We have rampaged through it with our machines and our greed.
And we have taken people’s lives…people with names…people with talents…people who are sacred
And we have let them go hungry…be ignorant…be in unnecessary pain…
~We have broken them…used them…neglected them…and wasted their potential…
Lord, how can all this be?
Lord, how did this happen?
Lord, we need you to save us…
We need you to save this wonderful world…and all the wonderful people in it…
Lord, show us what to do…to bring you in…
And though we can’t change the world tomorrow by ourselves
We can invite you in to our story…to our life…to our heart…
Then there will be hope.