MorningPrayer Saturday

Hello, to all who might be reading this Blog.

A year and a half ago I started to write a "Morning Prayer." Just one a morning.  No scriptures, no other thoughts; just the one short prayer.  Not only have I found meaning and significance in doing this, but it seems to have touched a number of people in positive ways.  I plan to continue this practice and have decided to put the morning prayer on this Blog so that anyone can see them, and respond if they wish.

i prepare to write the prayer by sitting very still and allowing my mind to float.  Usually, a word or phrase comes to mind and as i start to prayerfully write, the prayer falls into place.  I edit very little but allow it to be as it is.

I offer them as a form of meditation and mystery in our daily relationship with God.

Below is the last 12 morning prayers, just to get us started.

Thank you

Many Blessings of Peace and Joy,

Keith Haverkamp

Dear God of Today,

   Decision: may it be a grace-filled possibility.

   Desire: may it be purely  defined.

   Determination: may the potential fill us with strong vision.

   Discipline: may we be empowered to work without ceasing.

   Devotedly: we ask for your loving help and guidance. AMEN 

Dear God,

 We often face challenges in our life; sometimes they seem very small and sometimes  quite large.  But they are our challenges and obstacles that we must face and overcome; we each know what our challenges are this morning. We ask that we be granted the courage, strength  and determination to overcome and keep on going. We pray that if possible we learn and grow from each hurdle and become better people in the Kingdom. We pray that our efforts scatter droplets of hope and joy wherever we go. AMEN

Oh God,
May we rise from the ground to soar in the vault of heaven, immersing ourselves in the shimmering blue of ancient stars. May angels singing saturate our thoughts with opportunities beyond our dreams, filling us with the pure light of your vision and giving us wings of praise. May we know and understand the freedom in your love, O God, and the binding oneness found in your grace.AMEN.

Dear God,
  As we tend our gardens of living soil, might you tend the garden of our souls. As we till the earth, adjusting the chemistry and planning the plantings -- might you rake  us clean, bless our gifts and abilities and bring us into wellness of spirit.  As we plant and hoe and weed and water -- might you purify and nourish and nurture us. Cast over us a balance of light and dark and help us to withstand the harshest of conditions. Bring us, we pray, to the fullest of growth and may our potential be realized in love. AMEN

Dear God,

  Morning light has come, ready or not.  The day progresses and sometimes we meander along, flow along, jog along, stumble along, or purposefully move along. May this day unfold with purpose and meaning. No matter how we move along, may we learn something along the way and do some good deed. May we glorify you in our actions and in our being. AMEN

Dear God,

    Sometimes we are too self-absorbed and see the world as revolving around us.  Help us to let go of thoughts of ourselves and immerse ourselves in the people and events around us.  Perhaps, we can do good, offer a smile, reach out a hand, and be creators of life and light and good. In gratitude and thankfulness may we  "be", this day of opportunity. AMEN

Dear God,

  Help us to move through times of transition, those sticky and unsure times of being in-between.   As our world shakes and moves, help us to find stable ground.  .  Help us when we fight for control and have none. In these times of weariness, help us to lean on you; our rock and our ground of being. Help us to realize that our surrender is not weakness but strength in knowing that the cosmic force of your love is the glue that binds and the heartbeat that gives life. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN

Dear God,

   May the sweetness of the day float through us filling our senses in fragrant pinks and whites of God breath and angel song.

May we pause and smell and hear and see the undulations of Spirit flowing, carrying us in the dance of spring and the passage of eternity.

May we be lifted up in Spirit transcendent thought and sing of angel breath and God song to a world, hungry for beauty. AMEN

Dear God,

  How fortunate we are; most of us live in a land of freedom and a land running with clear pure water.  We live with abundant food and housing that supports and holds us. We live in a land that proclaims justice and mercy and guides and cares for us.  Are we blessed or are we just lucky?  How we answer that question might determine our level of gratitude and our level of thanksgiving for our life and its mercy. Let us live in thanks for the treasures and pleasures that we enjoy, in spite of human hardships, we are blessed. AMEN

Lord God,

  May we be granted the luxury of slowing down and  growing the spirit within us.  May we acknowledge that spirit as holy, knowing that our body is the house of that divine spark.  In divinity may we breathe and perceive the world as a sacred dwelling for our learning and your joy. Help us to not be so caught up in our own design  for eternity as we are for your design for loving us. In divine fire, may we be flaming sparks of your love. AMEN

Dear God,

  We would like to soar like an eagle today, but instead, the lawn needs mowing.

  We want to run and leap like a gazelle, but our knees hurt our back is sore and our toes are twisted.

  We want to be a poet laureate and paint a masterpiece, but our taxes are late the kitchen ceiling is greasy.

  Ahh well, help us to be content in the small mundane things in life and find deep wisdom in the kitchen sink. AMEN

Dear God,

  Carry us! Carry us to a healing place. A place of serenity and tranquility. A place of endless skies and quiet warmth. A  place of murmuring angels where the pulse of creation beats like a measured gong.  A place where we are nourished with living waters that flush us clean and purified with hyssop and myrrh that  wash away all our burdens, hurts and fears. Carry us and hold us, living God, into the eternal place of wisdom and freedom where we  are free to let go and leap like the Holy Spirit filled wind into your arms of grace. AMEN