And here’s the second prayer from my time looking back at our time with the Reading Boiler Room. God had been teaching me about being thankful in all circumstances. I’d known what that mean in my head for a long time, but this prayer was written just after the head knowledge migrated down to my heart…<\/p>\n
\nThank you Father,
\nThank you Son,
\nThank you Spirit,
\nThank you Three in One, for the Boiler Room.
\nThank you for the prayers,
\nWhich you have heard from heaven and answered,
\nThank you for restored lives,
\nThank you for healed lives,
\nThank you for changed lives,
\nThank you for saved lives,
\nThank you that you love every one.
\nThank you, Lord, for speaking to us,
\nGuiding, directing, instructing, teaching, and whispering your love to us.
\nThank you for your peace,
\nThank you for your comfort,
\nThank you for your rest,
\nComing swiftly, as calm after the storm.
\nThank you for creativity,
\nExpressions of praise to The Almighty,
\nThank you for artwork, poetry and prose,
\nThank you for the simple drawings of the young,
\nThank you for the masterpieces of the artistic,
\nThank you for all these works of the Spirit.
\nThank you for our relationships with the poor,
\nFor the homeless and destitute,
\nFor young people with little hope,
\nThank you for strength to love the unlovely,
\nThank you, Jesus, that you are hope.
\nThank you for those you have brought to us from near or far,
\nPilgrims on the way of the Lord,
\nThank you for those willing to serve,
\nAnd those who have been difficult to serve,
\nThank you for new friends,
\nAnd the networks you are building,
\nThank you for staff and volunteer.
\nThank you for this town you have placed us in,
\nReading the beautiful,
\nThank you for her streets, her people,
\nHer rivers, her industries,
\nThank you for your people here.
\nThank you for the seasons,
\nFor meals on the balcony in summer,
\nFor praying in the sunshine,
\nAnd gifts to warm the building in winter.
\nThank you for this place,
\nFor granting us a palace when we were praying for a shed,
\nThank you for giving us a building that realised your dreams
\nWhen we had only a little faith,
\nThank you for turning a dark dank shell,
\nInto a building filled with the light and fragrance of Christ,
\nThank you for showing yourself as the great I AM.
\nThank you for the times of testing,
\nThank you for lifting us during illness and loss,
\nThank you for giving us grace when we strove too much,
\nAnd when our persistence was flagging,
\nThank you for moving us to the point of surrender,
\nThank you for bearing with us,
\nWhen we would not bear with each other.
\nThank you, gracious Lord,
\nthat we have so much to be thankful for.
\nThank you Father,
\nThank you Son,
\nThank you Spirit,
\nThank you Three in One, for the Boiler Room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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