A Prayer as a New Week Begins Again // Sept. 20, 2020
Walter Brueggemann, an Old Testament scholar, has been bringing much depth to my prayer life. He has a book of collected prayers called Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth. Here is a prayer he prayed after reading Jeremiah 3:1 - 4:4 on October 23, 2001. I find myself praying this prayer again and again in this age of western deconstruction, racial turmoil, and political religions. Reach Us You in your harshness, dismissing, judging, condemning devising evil... You in your mercy, seeking, willing, hoping, wishing, reaching, weeping. You in your harshness and in our mercy, You puzzle us, You bewilder us, You keep us off balance, You as you are...perhaps bec