September 1, 2024 Prayer for the Pastor, Deacon, Chaplain

You can listen to Laura Aase pray for you right here: https://www.cgpmn.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sept-1-prayer.m4a

Dear Patient and Loving God,

It’s all about your love. I just know it is. And it is a true gift to know your love is for me and that I get to tell others about it. I get to live a life that points to you. It’s all just so miraculous. I truly marvel at how you love me so well, so often, so faithfully. And so many times, my brain takes over and I think and I over think and I trip myself up by hanging onto the wrong stuff. I can so easily squeeze the life right out of a moment and miss the magic, miss the wonder, miss YOU. Right there in it. Right here in it with me. Right now. Loving me into being who I am. And it’s your love that wakes me up. It wakes up compassion. I can even feel compassion for myself. I can forgive myself because of you. And then suddenly what I’m seeing out of my eyeballs just about drops me to my knees. It’s all the little stuff. That’s where you are. In the little parts of life that suddenly mean everything. And you’re in the heart breaking stuff, too. Or you at least you are with me as things fall apart and my anger gets stirred up and it all feels too risky or not risky enough. So patient, loving God. Help me to look out at my people today and to see you. Help me to let go of the things that are made up by humans so that it frees me to see you everywhere. Because you are.

You are even and especially in those who love me best and most. Those who chose me and those I chose and choose to love. They especially can feel when I’m clinging to the wrong things, because I suppose I take it out on them unintentionally. So stir up my compassion and love for them Help me to give and receive their forgiveness and love. Amen.

Take a deep breath, dear deacon, dear pastor, dear chaplain. For your labor in the Lord is not in vain. Don’t be afraid. God is with you.