O Love Divine,
and give us hearts of beauty
in place of our hearts of stone, we pray.
Bring us to repentance and renewal,
that we may turn from our presumptions
and carelessness toward our neighbors.
Keep us in the hollow of your hand, Lord Christ,
and on the lee side of your sheltering love.
Draw us in
to sit in the presence of Eternal Love and Truth,
O Holy Spirit,
and set alight our adoration.
Open our ears, O God,
to hear the music of eternity
in cool autumn rains and skittering leaves:
fill us with wonder at your creation.
Bind up the wounds
of those who ache or weep,
and soothe the fevered brows
of those in distress, O Redeemer.
Secure within your embrace, O Holy One,
we ask that your blessing descend
upon those we remember before You.
Amen.
Photo: The trees at the back of the building at St. Martin's turning color. Photo by Lincoln Drake.
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