Sacredise - Prayer: The Seed Of Your Kingdom

The Seed Of Your Kingdom

by John van de Laar

The seed of Your kingdom is forever being sown

into our lives, our world, O God.

But it doesn’t always take root.

Sometimes it fails to find a place to grow.

And so we pray…

For ourselves and others when life makes us hard and resistant

like a well-trodden path

where old habits, old systems and old patterns of thinking

keep your message from growing;

For ourselves and others when we become so immersed

in the short-lived, shallow, rock-hiding soil of the moment

where Your life too easily gets blown away by the wind;

For ourselves and others when our fears, insecurities,

desires and self-absorption

tangle like thorns around Your grace

and choke it into silence;

For ourselves and others when Your truth brings out the best in us

and we grow fruitful in compassion and justice

in service and worship.

The seed of Your kingdom is forever being sown

into our lives and our world, O God;

May it find good soil, may it grow

and may it produce a harvest of life, peace, joy and love

in us and across the globe.

Amen.

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