Litany

Yesterday, the Second Sunday of Lent, I worshipped with my faith community at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. The service included a litany that touched my heart. The order of worship does not give credit to the author but it is beautifully written. I share it as a devotional thought for the day and invite you to pray it daily.

God of wholeness and healing,

we come to you

with our only plea being

that you accept us as the paradox of people we are -

alone together

strangely familiar

diligently at ease

wholly scattered

extravagantly ordinary

anxiously hopeful

simply complicated

clearly mysterious

strongly fragile.

That's who we are, God -

a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

In your mercy, Lord,

you see the whole of us,

not one part of us,

and still you call your creation good.

For your compassion,

we are grateful beyond words.

Let us be born again in the wholeness of your Spirit.

Re-birth us with your love.