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“Behold, I am making all things new.” * Revelation 21:5 Dear Lord, eternal power, everlasting love, In You we live and move and have our being. Prepare our hearts for what is being revealed, And make us able to bear the light. Give us this day the grace of Your blessing. Open our eyes to behold Your kingdom, Already among us, pressing into the present As leaven quietly transforms the whole. Let Creation’s long groaning be known As the labor of its freedom being born.’ Make us fellow workers In the renewal You have begun. Let us receive the bread You provide, The nourishment of the age breaking in, The first taste of the New Creation, The feast prepared for all. Let your fire reveal what each thing is. Let the world’s false order pass away. Search us and bring every hidden thing to light. Release us from accusation and vengeance. Teach us to forgive as we are forgiven, Let mercy triumph over judgment. Shelter us as the chaff is driven before the wind. Keep us humble beneath the gathering storm. Deliver us from evil, From the power that lives by lies, That mocks justice and casts righteousness down, And preys upon those who resist. Gather what is scattered into Your Covenant. Draw every nation into your peace. Make us ministers of the reconciliation Made flesh in the Incarnate Word. Crucify in us what belongs to the Old World, And free us for the new life beyond its rule. Keep us awake through the unveling, Wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Let Your reign encompass all things. Let it be on Earth as it is in Heaven. Lead us in the way everlasting, Through the Risen Life and the Spirit poured out. For Yours is the Kingdom among us, Yours the glory being revealed In us and throughout all Creation, Now and to the day of its fullness. Amen