Our tendency, especially in view of God’s greatness and beauty, is to recognize how much we lack. Couple that with marketing that is consistently telling us that we are lacking and in need of so much more than we have, and its no wonder than many of us often feel wanting, even in the life of promised abundance. So, let us pray with and for one another a prayer adapted from Ernest Campbell to remind us to remember all that we have.
Let’s pray together,
O Father, the source of all things good, grant that we who are inclined to remember what we lack may not forget what we have.
We bless you for the warmth of summer; for lengthened days, green grass, blooming flowers, and all the scents and sounds and colors that declare your creative glory.
We thank you for the interflow of ideas, the sharing of convictions, the ability to receive and infuse hope, and the play of divine truth on the human spirit.
Our highest praise we reserve for you, our Father, whose mercy is the same from age to age, and whose life-giving grace has been declared and pledged to us in Jesus Christ.
Center our far-ranging lives in your eternal love, that in whatever time or circumstance we may know and celebrate and respond with worship and love to your presence.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.