God of peace,
We are broken,
tired,
weary,
We are searching for you,
Help us O’ Lord,
For it seems that no one is faithful.
Come and give us peace,
Restore us,
Make us anew.
Bring Hope to the dark places.
God of Peace,
Come,
We are ready for you.
Come.
Hope-giving Lord
To you Lord,
We look for the path you have laid for us
We seek your guidance to make our paths straight.
Come,
Lead us, O’Lord
Lead us in this Advent season
To focus on you, Nothing else.
Come Hope giving Lord
Come
Peaceful Lord,
To you
our minds shift
are wants are yours
and we keep nothing from you.
Send your Spirit
To cleans us
From what keeps us away from you.
That in this Advent season
We may hold on to the hope,
That You will come and be with us.
It is to You Peaceful Lord we pray.
Amen.
One of my goals of this blog is to help provide resoucres for worship. So as i was thinking about how i am going to do this i stumbled upon the idea of writting Collects. If you don’t know what a collect is here below this post is the United Methodist take on the idea of what a Collect is. I am going to start by writting Collects for Advent and then i wil assesss on how i will contune this practice after Advent is over. I will post them on Wednesday of each week. Peace.
The collect, an ancient pattern of prayer, is short and to the point, yet has a rich content. Not only are many collects included in this and other collections of prayers, but persons who learn to pray in this form can quickly and easily compose appropriate prayers for all kinds of occasions. These are the elements of a collect, as illustrated by the traditional Collect for Purity and a contemporary version of it:
1) Address to God
2) God’s attribute or acts on which this prayer is based
3) The petition itself
4) Intended result of the petition
5) Final doxology (from the UMBOW 446)
