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Hello everyone. Wednesday is a night of the week we gather to be with each other in quiet and peaceful space. I cherish it, even if I cannot be here each week. The knowledge that we are here gathering is important for our community and for our world. Let’s share Blessings, Thanksgiving and Peace tonight.
Blessings, by Laura Story
Deb: Here is a prayer from the Early Christians from the New, New Testament by Hal Tausig.
Taussig, Hal. A New New Testament: A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts (p. 8). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
The Prayer of Thanksgiving (A Prayer from the Early Christians).
Voice 1. This is the prayer they said: We give thanks to you, every life and heart stretches toward you, O name untroubled, honored with the name of God, praised with the name of Father.
Voice 2. To everyone and everything comes the kindness of the Father, and love and desire.
Voice 1. And if there is a sweet and simple teaching, it gifts us mind, word, and knowledge: mind, that we may understand you; word, that we may interpret you; knowledge, that we may know you.
Voice 2. We rejoice and are enlightened by your knowledge. We rejoice that you have taught us about yourself.
Voice 1. We rejoice that in the body you have made us divine* through your knowledge.
Voice 2. The thanksgiving of the human who reaches you is this alone: that we know you. We have known you, O light of mind. O light of life, we have known you.
Voice 1. O womb of all that grows, we have known you.
Voice 2. O womb pregnant with the nature of the Father, we have known you.
Voice 1. O never-ending endurance of the Father who gives birth, so we worship your goodness.
Voice 2. One wish we ask: we wish to be protected in knowledge.
Voice 1. One protection we desire: that we not stumble in this life.
Voice 2. When they said these things in prayer, they welcomed one another, and they went to eat their holy food, which had no blood in it.
Deb Trees: O Holy One, we give you praise by the actions of our lives here on earth. We give you our love and our dedication. Help us while we are here. Keep us close to you. Remind us of who we really are and keep us safe. In Jesus’s name, we say, Amen.
Dear friends, Please share any prayers, dedications, or thoughts for yourselves or others that you would like to share…
We ask for the fulfillment of all our spoken and unspoken questions and prayers. Amen.
May we each have a restful sleep and peaceful night. And So It Is.
Perfect Peace by Laura Story
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