A Prayer, God, for your Water--Jan. 15, 2015

[From Jan. 11, 2007 archive]

We are poor, we are needy;

in a desert we seek water,

and our tongues are parched with thirst.

We are strangers, we are alien;

for your household we are thirsting,

but hostile questions fill our heart.

Do not forsake us, be our refuge;

with your water slake our thirst;

we pour out our heart before you.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 97; 147:12-20; 16; 62

Isa. 41:17-29

Eph. 2:11-22

Mark 2:1-12

Selected Verses

Ps. 62:8

Trust in him at all times, O people;
          pour out your heart before him;
          God is a refuge for us.  Selah

Isa. 41:17

When the poor and needy seek water,
          and there is none,
          and their tongue is parched with thirst,
I the LORD will answer them,
          I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 

Eph. 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God…

Mark 2:8

At once Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were discussing these questions among themselves; and he said to them, “Why do you raise such questions in your hearts?  …"