This prayer is from a sermon podcast by Rob Bell that a good friend sent along to me. In the midst of my own waiting for spring, for warmth, for answers, for what our next steps in our life will look like, this prayer echoes my heart’s cry today:
“God we ask for new possibilities. We come to you today and we bring our despair, our disillusionment, the weariness in our bones and we ask for new life. We ask for new wind, new energy. God, for those of us who find ourselves mired in routine and the everyday order of events and it feels like it’s just draining us – we ask for new possibilities. We ask that our thinking would be challenged, our boxes would be smashed, and that the ways we’ve limited things and drawn boundaries where there aren’t any – that we would be confronted in that. We ask for resurrection. We bring before you relationships that are strained, difficult, tense. We bring economic realities, debt, unemployment, bills… we drag this all in and set it down on the ground in front of us. We ask for hope, for new possibilities for a new day.”