Here are the three Prayers of Longing from Sundays sermon for us to utilize in our personal spiritual formation this week: Prayer of Longing by St. Columba (521-597) From A Celtic Liturgy Kindle in our hearts, O God, the flame of love that never ceases, that it may burn in us, giving light to others. May we shine for ever in your temple, set on fire with your eternal light, even your Son Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. A Prayer of Longing for Spiritual Springtime by Gary Chorpenning Lord of Life, you are turning the ground green around me. The warming sun and the nourishing rain are renewing the life of the soil. The birds of the warm months are all returning — the alien starlings in their noisy multitudes, the fierce-eyed, raucous grackles, too. Even the nighthawks, the dark-sky hunters are in the air, calling and calling in the chilly, predawn gloom. The insects arise from who-knows-where. They fly and crawl and stir to life from eggs secretted away last fall, a team of forerunners who will in time be joined by armies of their armored fellows in uncountable millions and millions. Will you, my Lord,bring new life to my dead and sin-blown soul? Will you, my Lord, stir the dead husks of my spirit into green shoots? Will you, my Lord, bring back the soaring hope of my life, driven away by the icy storms of godless self-serving and pleasure-seeking. I am as dead as a sub-zero winter’s night –windswept, frozen, and still. Will you renew to my soul yet again the lush, song-filled summer surgings of life and fruitfulness, O Lord of Life? Psalm 63 (A prayer of Longing of David while in the desert of Judah) 1 You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. 2 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. 3 Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. 4 I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. 5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. 6 On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. 7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. 8 I cling to you; your right hand upholds me. 9 Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. 10 They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals. 11 But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.
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