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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

A Prayer for a Probationer

My friend Doris recently went before her Board of Ordained Ministry (one of those Methodist hierarchies) for ordination as Deacon. Below is the prayer I sent her - maybe it speak to each of us.

Holy One, Holy Three -
Your voice called through the water and through the fire;
your calling is sustained through wheat and vine;
your servant reaches out to your people with towel and basin.
Hold her. Comfort her. Let your light shine through her.
And when the interviews are over and decisions are made,
may the community called the Church confirm her gifts and graces.
Through the baptism, suffering, death, and resurrection
of the Incarnate one, we pray these blessings.
Amen.