Prayer: Walking Holy Week’s Road with the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

Prayers and Ponderings

Walking Holy Week’s Road, A Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Loving God,

Lead me step by step

On this Holy Week road

And form Your will and way

In answer to the weariness

And worry of the world

So easily residing in my soul.

Let the same sustaining spirit

You poured into Christ Jesus

Be poured ever anew into me

Answering every resistance

Begging me to distraction

From Your gracious gift

Of a life fully alive

Despite twists and turns

Formed by the world

And also by me.

Yes, Love,

Walk me into this week

In reverent, holy wonder

Revealing Your mysteries

Easily overlooked or ignored

In rush to lesser things

Urging a numbness

Of heart and mind and soul.

Moment by moment

Hour by hour

Day by day

Etch Your Holy story

Anew in my heart and mind

Answering every sorrow

And anguish of the world

With just enough light

To lead me on Your path

Toward a rising unimaginable

Except by You who forms

The impossible into the probable.

Let this motion of You

Renew not only me

But Your whole creation

Whom You love into life

That Your wholeness and fullness

May emerge ever anew

In the least likely of places

In the most difficult circumstances

Using people often overlooked

By the powers and principalities

Of a world practiced in resistance

To Your Holy motion

Of resurrection renewal.

O Love,

Walk me into this week

Transforming every cross

Of the world’s making

From death into Life

Giving rise to something Holy

Beautiful, loving and good

That Your joy may finally

Find its way into the heart

Of your very human family.

Yes, Love,

Sustain me on this walk

Down Your Holy Week road

Forming my little love

With Your large Love

Into some sacred cross

Of Your Holy intersection.

Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Intro and Outro Music by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins