Haiku Prayers

One of the things I love about our church is its creativity. That even though we follow a general liturgy each week in worship, there is much that is outside the box. Currently as we are going through the Eastertide season in the book of Revelation, we gather for a brief teaching about the text and then we have three options of what we do next to further our look at the word. One is often a dialogue about the text. Another one is usually artistic in nature--like helping create new worship pictures for the sanctuary based on Revelation's images of Jesus. Sometimes doing a body prayer (doxa soma) is offered. Sometimes it's learning a new song that our worship leader wrote based on the night's text.

Tonight I went to a session where we wrote haiku prayers based upon Revelation 21:1-6 that will become part of a prayer flag. Here are some of them:

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Holy Creator,

Redeemer of the fallen world,

Dwell amidst us now.

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Trustworthy and True

You are; give us water from

The spring of Life.

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Seated on the throne,

You reign over all; You will

Bring us redemption.

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Redeemer, we long

For the fallen to be made

Whole again. Save us.

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Beginning and End,

The Maker of all things new,

You deserve our praise.