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 ...