23. April 2012 by Rose Southwell.

 It light of the recent events as to inclusivity at Columbia Theological Seminary. I wrote this Psalm.

Holy God, you are the creator of all things,

            You formed the earth with as if it were clay,

            You glazed the sunbeams to feed the earth,

            You called the rains and baptized the ground once more.

            Your created humans from that dust, breathing your life within us.

            You knit every person together by your perfect hands.

O Lord, we deny the work of your hands by denying each other.

            We have turned from your work to politics,

            We cast sticks and stones at those you created that differ from us.

            We see only difference, not the work of your hands.

            We forget your words of loving as ourselves.

            We push to the outside, so that we don’t have to see.

 Parent of all, teach us your ways, guide our feet and teach us.

            Help us to turn community into brotherhood.

            Help us to be the Body that has different members

            Help us to see your fingerprints upon the other.

            Help us to love as you have called us to love.

            Help us to pull-in those that have been pushed away.

Eternal God, You are good, just, and attentive to your people’s needs.

            You alone can help transform us all.

            You are the one creating a new kingdom.

            We await the day where tears turn to dancing.

            We rest in your Hope.

            For you O God, are all we need.  

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25. March 2011 by Rose Southwell.

Living water,

            Help me to thirst only for you.

Help me to find a place in my valley where I know you are with me.

Guide me to a ocean of love.

            Wash me with grace, and free me from captivity.

Mighty Flood,

            Destroy within me all the corruption from your way

            Save in me what is right.

Walk with me on the waters of my faith

            Allow me the courage to step out to meet you.

Clam the storms of my life

            That I may hear the cashing waves of your calling

Allow for soft rains to fall upon my soul.

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24. March 2011 by Rose Southwell.

God of the darkness of morning.

            The birds sing like angles welcoming in the light.

Is your light coming God?

            Will the darkness be pushed away?

As the great light you placed in the heavens to guide us creeps over the horizon

            The chill of the sprits breath caresses my face.

Help me to know you are near to me.

Make me like the morning song that welcomes you in

Blind my fears with your good light

Warm my soul

Bless this day with your presence

            Remind me to lean on your Sprit.

Hold me in your presences all day long

            SO that I might show the world your Light in me.

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24. March 2011 by Rose Southwell.

God who hears,

            Who knows more than we can know

                        Whose ways are mysterious.

Thank you for allowing us to dare to approach your thrown.

Thank you for the gift to speak in your presences.

                        Thank you for hearing our cries.

I step into the ever flowing river of prayer now Lord,

            With the saints of this world

                        My siblings in Christ all over the world.

Thank you Oh God.

                                                                                     Help us Oh God.

                                           Guide us Oh God.

Forgive us Oh God.

                                                                                                                        Teach us Oh God.

                                                            Rescue us Oh God.

Show us once more that we need only you.

            Help us to keep our eyes fixed on you.

Love us once more.

                        Amen.  

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24. March 2011 by Rose Southwell.

Artist of Grace,

            Paint me into your canvas,

            Allow me but a small stroke in your masterpiece.

Color me with your hues,

            Dip me in your waters of life.

Mix me into a shade of newness,

            That I might be the work of your unique hands.

Take my dark pigments away from me,

            And lighten my sole with your pure white.

Remove from me the colored stains of my past,

            And replace it with a tint that is pleasing to your eye.

Do not make me dye

That infuses to the fabric of sin.

Do not let this portrait be left unfinished

Please Oh Great Artisans,

Slather the shades of grace into my life.

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24. March 2011 by Rose Southwell.

Oh God, I feel silenced by my shock.

                I try and hold onto the memories of your steadfast love,

                                But I fail.

My guts turn within my belly, and my eyes build up with tears.

                Why… why is this happing to me again

HAVE I NOT PROVEN MYSELF TO YOU?!?!

                Have I not paid my dues?

                Did I not fight for your justice?

                                For your church?

Why did I show grace?

 Why did I show Grace when I feel you have given me none?

                What did I do to derive this from you!?

                Where is your love now?

                Where in your peace?

Where are you now, have you not seen?

When will I leave this desert journey?

                When is the exodus for my pain?

                How deeply must I grown and wail before you hear me?

                How long, O God? How long will I be tormented by your calling?

Is this my cross to bear?

                Is this what you want from me!?

Have I not yet proven my Love?

Have I not yet paid my debt for my sins?

Was not my debt paid on the cross?

                Will I too have to be sacrificed by this crowed?

Must I to face my judgment in silence as Christ did?

When will you come to me Oh God?

                When will to swoop in and rescue me?

                Do you even know that I am here?

Cannot your light shine in the darkness?

Or have you forgotten me?

When will you comfort me God?

                Will you see my pain?

                Will you hold me in the pit?

                Will you fill me with peace?

Will I again know your love?

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22. March 2011 by Rose Southwell.

We had a Barbra Brown Tayor Confernce this weekend where she challenged us to write a 100 or more word prayer everyday for two weeks. I decied to take the challenge.

Unforutionally I have had a rough few days so I am not going to post all of the prayers just yet. But stay tooned!

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