Sacredise - Prayer: Welcome To Our World

Welcome To Our World

by John van de Laar

In our more cynical or despairing moments,
    we wrestle with faith
        and with the idea of you coming to us, O God;
But, somewhere in our hearts we know,
    that we do not need you to come,
        because you have always been here
        with us,
        among us,
        within us.

And so now, as we welcome you again,
    we acknowledge that you need no welcome;
        it is we who need to remember
        who need to see again your presence,
        who need to allow your ‘with-us-ness’
            to flood our hearts and lives.

Welcome to our world, Jesus,
    but more importantly, we thank you
        for welcoming us
        into your ever-coming, always-present world.

Amen.

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