Prayers for June 10, 2001
Trinity Sunday

Call to Worship
Leader: Let us gather around the Mystery today, O God, and be clarified by what we don’t know.
People: Grant us peace in Mystery.
Leader: Let us gather around the Spirit today, and be glad at its presence among us.
People: Grant us joy in the Spirit.
Leader: Let us be real in our hope today as You visit us in worship.
People: Grant us the graciousness of prayer well meant.

Prayer of Confession
We admit that being out of control is no fun. We are not amused by confusion. Foggy things that have no answer do not impress us. We try to do more than we can and believe we know more than we do.
Grant us a fresh look at life today. Let us no longer look for our own power and authority instead help us to be comfortable with those things we can’t understand. Forgive us our regrets, our wasted time, and our excessive activity. Let us go out from here with a new spirit, a restored heart, and a renewed approach to what we can know and what we cannot know. Amen

Prayer of Dedication
Take these small symbols of our great love for You, O God, and let them be lighthouses for those who have lost their way. Make them luminous, inventive, versatile and strong signs of Your presence with us. Amen.

Pastoral Prayer
We put our trust in the ancient scriptures, O God, and we praise You for them. We give thanks for all that they have already shown us and for the light they have yet to show forth. We give You thanks for the saints and heroes, the stories and the hopes of the many who have gone before us. As we remember how much they did, under such difficult circumstances, circumstances, which rival our own in complexity, we remind ourselves that You are still with us, showing us a way forward.
Give us the gift of imagination, that we may see the small openings in the heavy doors. Grant us the gift of luminosity, remembering that light was the first protagonist; the first one to call back to Your void in creation and announce that what we can see is good. Let praise for light mark our days.
And when we lose voice for praise, let our hearts hum Your tune. Let silence, praise and wonder be the foundation for the awe we know in You. Amen.