Letting go

  God of hope, you hold us all our days.

  

Give us courage to let go of all that would hold us back

  and weigh us down on our journey.

 

 Move us on to embrace the future you lay before us,

  to step out in faith and trust into the unknown.

  

Calm our fear,

  and strengthen us for all that is hard to leave

  and will be missed.

  

Give us grace to rejoice

  with thankful hearts in your love

  that is always with us

  and never loosens its grip;

  through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

      

      Amen.

Source: Ian Black, 2011. Prayers for All Occasions. London: SPCK.

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