Prayer: Necessary Sabbath Rest, with the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

Necessary Sabbath Rest - A Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

Loving God,

  Grant me grace

  To receive Your Sabbath

  Rest and renewal

  So often resisted

  In frenzied rush

  Toward inertias

  Of my own making.

Let breathing space

  Awaken me to Your breath

  Given as gift in every moment

  For a soul sustenance

  Often taken for granted

  Yet bearing the miracle of life

  Into my body, mind and spirit.

Let sacred pause still me

  Into awe and wonder

  At mysteries little and large

  Too often taken for granted

  By a heart and mind overfull

  With distractions dividing

  My attention at every turn.

Settle me enough

  To notice Your precious pulse

  Pressing Your life through me

  And in others around me

  Permeating Your whole creation

  Already singing a song of praise

  If only I will stop and listen

  To birdsong of early spring.

Yes, let your Sabbath gift

  Bear me up in light and love

  And offer rest from my restlessness

  In discovery of Your resurrection

  Already bearing its eternal motion

  In this body of me and the world.

Here…now…yes…thank you, Love.

                                          Amen.

Music: A Kind Word by Moments