Tuesday, July 4
This week, as we continue our focus on prayer this summer, we are going to pray our way through a hymn. “This Is My Song,” is found in our Glory to God hymnal. It’s a powerful hymn to sit with this week around the July 4th holiday. It was written between WWI and WWII and focuses around the theme of international peace. Each day this week I will pair some of the hymn with a prayer from different voices I have encountered in my own devotional space. I hope this hymn and these prayers connect with you this week.
“This is my home, the country where my heart is; here are my hopes, my dreams my holy shrine;”
Prayer: “Give me eyes to see and ears to hear. I know there is light in the darkness that makes everything new. I know there is new life in suffering that opens a new earth for me. I know there is a joy beyond sorrow that rejuvenates my heart. Yes, Lord, I know that you are, that you act, that you love, that you indeed are Light, Life, and Truth.” Amen.
-Henry Nouwen
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