A prayer of response to a calling God

A hard, deep call to obedience

  You are the God who makes extravagant promises.

  We relish your great promises

    of fidelity

      and presence

      and solidarity,

      and we exude in them.

  Only to find out, always too late,

    that your promise always comes

      in the midst of a hard, deep call to obedience.

  You are the God who calls people like us,

    and the long list of mothers and fathers before us,

      who trusted the promise enough to keep the call.

  So we give you thanks that you are a calling God,

    who calls always to dangerous new places.

  We pray enough of your grace and mercy among us

    that we may be among those

    who believe your promises enough

      to respond to your call.

  We pray in the one who embodied your promise

    and enacted your call, even Jesus. Amen.

In anticipation of reading Jeremiah 1–2 / 2000

Walter Brueggemann,  (2003). Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann 

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