A daily prayer during this COVID-19 crisis on April 7, 2020

​April 7, 2020

A daily prayer during this COVID-19 crisis

During these difficult days, Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar and the members of the Extended Cabinet are sharing a daily prayer based on the Revised Common Lectionary for the week.

Today’s prayer

​Holy One, 
It is Tuesday of the holiest of weeks. And yet our thoughts are far from holy.  
We are grateful for the psalmists who give us permission to cry out to you from the depths of our souls, with honesty, no holding back. 
Take #71 … she speaks my truth so well this day: from belief, to fear, to hope … and back again 
 
In you, O Lord, I take refuge 
         Deliver me 
                     Rescue me 
                               Listen to me 
                                              Save me 
You are my hope, my fortress 
                     Do not cast me off in old age 
                                Do not forsake me when my strength is spent 
                                                Do not leave me 
I will not give up hope … I will praise you even more. 
 
Thank you God, for psalmists, poets, preachers, prophets, and for your Spirit which intercedes for us when we just don’t have our own words to express the prayers in our hearts. 
In you we take refuge … our strength and redeemer.  
May it be so. 
 
By Rev. Erica Robinson-Johnson, Director of Connectional Ministries/Assistant to the Bishop
Based on Psalm 71:1-14