Sunday Prayer: Covenants

Your promises we welcome, numerous and good,
but the blamelessness we simply cannot manage.
Perhaps, O Perfection, we can come to a different arrangement?

We would give you our fear and awe — easily,
our names and faith, too — several times over,
but human things, O Holiness, are the stuff of life we cannot forfeit.

If you insist upon dazzling us into submission,
requiring our shame and suffering as testimony,
then let us get behind you, O Way, for the sweet chance of becoming lost.

Let the ends of the earth remember and worship;
tell tomorrow, and yesterday, and today to bow.
Abraham is still trying to count the stars, O Satisfaction, as are we all.

Hope is the inheritance of our disappointment
passed on to the next generation for better odds.
Come, O Covenant — not with your proposition but with your fulfillment.

on the Revised Common Lectionary texts

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