Walking Holy Week’s Road, A Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Loving God,

 Lead me step by step

 On this Holy Week road

 And form Your will and way

 In answer to the weariness

 And worry of the world

 So easily residing in my soul.

Let the same sustaining spirit

 You poured into Christ Jesus

 Be poured ever anew into me 

 Answering every resistance

 Begging me to distraction

 From Your gracious gift

 Of a life fully alive

 Despite twists and turns

 Formed by the world 

 And also by me.

Yes, Love,

 Walk me into this week

 In reverent, holy wonder

 Revealing Your mysteries 

 Easily overlooked or ignored

 In rush to lesser things

 Urging a numbness 

 Of heart and mind and soul.

Moment by moment 

 Hour by hour

 Day by day

 Etch Your Holy story

 Anew in my heart and mind

 Answering every sorrow

 And anguish of the world

 With just enough light

 To lead me on Your path

 Toward a rising unimaginable

 Except by You who forms

 The impossible into the probable.

Let this motion of You 

 Renew not only me

 But Your whole creation 

 Whom You love into life

 That Your wholeness and fullness

 May emerge ever anew

 In the least likely of places

 In the most difficult circumstances

 Using people often overlooked 

 By the powers and principalities

 Of a world practiced in resistance 

 To Your Holy motion 

 Of resurrection renewal.

O Love, 

 Walk me into this week

 Transforming every cross

 Of the world’s making 

 From death into Life

 Giving rise to something Holy

 Beautiful, loving and good

 That Your joy may finally 

 Find its way into the heart

 Of your very human family.

Yes, Love,

 Sustain me on this walk

 Down Your Holy Week road

 Forming my little love

 With Your large Love

 Into some sacred cross 

 Of Your Holy intersection.

Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Intro and Outro Music by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins