DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:

• 13 pg PDF print-ready file of the prayers (for you to print and distribute to members, or copy/paste for worship liturgy).
  PDF includes 12 poetic prayers with the following themes and titles:

  • Tune My Heart | Wandering Heart: “Tune my heart” (Ash Wednesday)

  • Alignment | Wandering Heart: “Tune my heart” (Ash Wednesday)

  • All This Time | Wandering Heart: “Jesus sought me” (1st Sunday in Lent)

  • Rescue Me | Wandering Heart: “Rescue me from danger” (2nd Sunday in Lent)

  • Praise the Mount | Wandering Heart: “Praise the mount” (3rd Sunday in Lent)

  • Open Hands | Wandering Heart: “I’m fixed upon it” (4th Sunday in Lent)

  • Teach Me | Wandering Heart: “Teach me” (5th Sunday in Lent)

  • Courage | Wandering Heart: “Songs of loudest praise” (Palm/Passion Sunday)

  • With My Outside Voice | Wandering Heart: “Streams of mercy” (Maundy Thursday)

  • The Next Line | Wandering Heart: “Prone to leave the God I love” (Good Friday)

  • Easter Morning | Wandering Heart: “And I hope” (Easter)

  • Here’s My Heart | Wandering Heart: “Here’s my heart” (2nd Sunday of Easter)

USES:

• Print the prayers and distribute them to members in your community

• Adapt the prayers as your Call to Worship or opening prayer for worship

• Use the prayers in a bible study group or Sunday school

• Use the poetry as a meditation during the sermon

• Use the poetry to inspire your own liturgy and sermon writing

• Print the poetry in your bulletin (perhaps as the bulletin cover)

EXCERPT:

We’ve been taught:
raise your hand,
keep your voice down,
no talking in church.
We’ve been taught to
never make a scene,
but I simply cannot abide.
I am one part questions,
two parts hunger.
I am a million prayers
and deep hope
wrapped up in one.

—Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed, excerpt from “With My Outside Voice”

CREDIT INFO:

When printing and sharing online or in worship, please always include the following credits:
Poem by Rev. Sarah Speed | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org