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Today as we sit with God through the words of Walter Brueggemann, we do so grateful for the gift of speech – God’s which creates and brings life and ours, which lets us talk with and relate to our God.

Your world-forming speech

Light from light
Creation from chaos
Life from death
Joy from sorrow
Hope from despair
Peace from hate
    All your gifts, all your love, all your power.
    All from your word, fresh from your word,
    all gifts of your speech.
We give thanks for your world-forming speech.
Thanks as well for our speech back to you,
    the speech of mothers and fathers
        who dared to speak
            in faith and unfaith
            in trust and in distrust
            in grateful memory and in high hurt.
We cherish this speech as we trust yours.
Listen this day for the groans and yearnings of your world,
    listen to our own songs of joy and our own drudges of death,
        and in the midst of our stammering,
            speak your clear word of life
                in the name of your word come flesh.  Amen.

(Poem from: Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann, Edited by Edwin Searcy, Fortress Press Minneapolis 2003. page 70.)

May God’s blessing be upon you today,
Dianne

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