A PRAYER TO FOLLOW THIS READING
O Christ of tender compassion, come again to us amid our life’s storms, as once You came to your beloved disciples, who were caught in the fearful throes of a vicious storm on Galilee. It was Your love for them and the surge of human helplessness that often paralyzes the members of the human family that resulted in this memorable encounter with humankind. You thereby demonstrate, to all humans, what our Saviour’s Love can accomplish. By walking on water, the day of Your defiance of the natural law reveals the propulsive power of love for Your dear friends is far removed from this day of shrunken faith and artificial intelligence. But we are never removed from Your Love for us or from our helplessness and need for Your victories.
We cannot deny that the marred visages of starving people and the bitter vitriol of uncontrolled tongues are as terrifying as the boisterous waves of an angry sea.
It is Love, Your Love, coming to possess our lives that will bring calm to our troubled sea and restore hope for those who sit and wait and pray.
Please, Lord, make us brave enough to refute the so-called wisdom of scholars who seek to produce the catalysis that shrinks our faith and gives us half-baked beliefs. Help us to reclaim the simple principles which enable children to be such beautiful lights to shine upon the road that leads us into the Kingdom Of Our God. Lord, You chose twelve people to help You change the course of history. But, unfortunately, today’s diluted mixture of shrunken faith and half-hearted, personally selected beliefs is no match for the vicious sea of dark demonic forces. Even so, Lord Jesus, Come to us again.
We pray for all through Your love’s sake. Amen.
HYMN: Eternal Father, Strong To Save
EDITORIAL NOTES
1 ‘ EROSION” .https://canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca/pratt/poem1.htm Poem by Newfoundland poet, E. J. Pratt
2 Prayer: Franklin D. Curtis
3 Hymn, ” Eternal Father, Strong To Save.”
4 replies on “A READING OF E. J. PRATT’S POEM ” EROSION””
Beautiful Prayer Frank
I am truly grateful for your response Joan, my friend and that you found the post helpful
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Happy New Rev Frank. Oh I loved your prayer so so needed in this troubling times. Love to both you and Vera
Thank you, Barbara, my friend! I am grateful that you have found the prayer helpful.