As promised, I’m posting a few sample prayers from my book 500 Prayers for Young People on the blog. Read a bit about it here.
Here are three prayers from the first section of the book: Thanksgiving and Praise. I am suddenly aware that this is a little bit like doing a poetry recital. If you like them, please use them, share them, and well… pray them.
1.
Extraordinary creator:
Sculptor of the mountains,
Painter of the universal canvas,
I bow in awe as I think of what you have made.
And yet…
You love me; insignificant, little me.
My heart is filled with thankfulness,
That the same God who crafted galaxies,
Made and knows me too.
2.
God, I cannot get my head around the idea that you allowed your only Son to die.
So that I could live forever.
I cannot begin to grasp how you are interested in me –
More than that; love me –
When you are the creator of all time and space and matter.
So I’ll switch off my puzzled mind for a moment, and speak from my heart:
Thank you God, that you love me so very much.
3.
Thank you that you didn’t wait for me to catch up,
Thank you that even when I wasn’t interested,
Didn’t care,
Didn’t want to know,
Laughed at the very suggestion of you,
Buried my head in the sand,
Looked the other way,
Rejected you,
Went in my own direction;
You went ahead and loved me anyway.
Thank you that you loved me first;
Loved me through all that,
And will keep on loving me regardless.
Buy 500 Prayers for Young People from Amazon or Eden. You are very welcome to reproduce these prayers.
MARTIN SAUNDERS 