Prayer Offered for April 16, 2018

Merciful God,
I enter the garden of Your presence
open to the mystery of Your love.
The hurt I have caused and the hurt I have borne
I lay to rest in the tomb of Your grace.
All resentment, shame, dread and anxiety
I wrap in the linens of Your mercy.
All distrust and defiance

I lay to rest in the depths of Your tender gaze.

Dawning One,
rise in me, and set me free,
free of all fear, free of the power of doubt
and the shrouds of the past.
Rise to new life in me,
wounded but whole,
radiant, forgiving and alive with Your love.
Create me anew: by Your grace set me free.—AMEN.