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Maker, Creator, Governor: Singing Praises to God

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Maker, Creator, Governor: Singing Praises to God (Wednesdays with Walter)

Walter Brueggemann has a gift to bring hidden thoughts of the soul to light before God. Over the course of this fall, I wanted to share Walter Brueggemann with you every Wednesday from his book, Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth. I believe his prayers, his words, are laden with wonder. The wonder of honesty. The wonder of trust. The wonder of love. The wonder of beauty.

You’re invited to join us for Wednesdays with Walter as we dive deeper in our relationships with God and with each other. [Tweet this]

Read through the poem below silently. Recite it aloud. May this become our prayer today and every day as we lift our eyes and praises to God:

Our true home

God before and God behind,
God for us and God for your own self,
———Maker of heaven and earth,
———creator of sea and sky,
———governor of day and night.
We give thanks for your ordered gift of life to us,
———for the rhythms that reassure,
———for the equilibriums that sustain,
———for the reliabilities that curb our anxieties.
——————We treasure from you,
—————————days to work and nights to rest.
——————We cherish from you,
—————————days to control and nights to yield.
——————We savor from you,
—————————days to plan and nights to dream.
Be our day and our night,
———our heaven and our earth,
———our sea and our sky,
——————and in the end our true home. Amen.

Lord, may we be a people marked by praise and thanksgiving today. May each word be a sweet offering to you. Amen.

What is your favorite attribute of God?

Pick up a copy of Walter Brueggemann’s Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth, from Amazon, here.

46 Comments

  1. Ro Elliott
    Ro Elliott on October 16, 2013 at 6:43 am

    Right now…Great Redeemer!!!!!

  2. Jg
    Jg on October 16, 2013 at 6:43 pm

    I love this, work and rest, control and yield, plans and dreams……. This is the ying and yang of our daily lives before Him. Simple and yet profound. One is always easier to do than the other…and for each of us, what’s the easiest is different! Oh Lord, show us when we need to plan and when we need to step back and yield control. Help us to dream, from out of our dreams you can do Amazing things….sometimes we dare not dream. Give us hope and rest. Help us to lean on and depend on you, trusting that you are in control and that’s exactly what we yearn for!
    Thank you, Margaret and thank you, Walter!

  3. Jg
    Jg on October 16, 2013 at 6:45 pm

    My favorite attribute…..Constant.

  4. Christina
    Christina on October 17, 2013 at 4:14 am

    Right now…that he is the healer of my relationship with myself.
    (Have you ever read Do You Love Me? by Debbie Swindoll? I think you would enjoy it.)

  5. Margaret
    Margaret on October 17, 2013 at 9:33 am

    Amen!

  6. Margaret
    Margaret on October 17, 2013 at 9:34 am

    Echoing your prayer!

  7. Margaret
    Margaret on October 17, 2013 at 9:34 am

    Ooh– I’ll have to pick up a copy of that book. Thanks for sharing, Christina!

  8. Janet
    Janet on October 17, 2013 at 12:02 pm

    I have two. That He is the same yesterday, today and forever and His love for me that does not stop.

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