Prayer by John Deuel via cheztudor (CC BY 4.0)
Image: “Cocteau Twins – Pink Orange Red” by Surian Soosay via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
A Collect for Attentiveness to Divine Love
Creator of attraction and desire, from the sub-atomic to the celestial: Your Divine Love is always calling to us. May we remember to open our hearts, quiet our minds, and attend to your still, small voice, so that our lives together become more faithful witnesses to the beauty you have placed within us, and to the power that beauty has to transform the world. Amen.
Curator’s note: A big thank you to John Deuel for letting me share a prayer he wrote as part of his creative Lenten discipline. We’ll check back in with John in a future post.
Related Hymn
“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” (Charles Wesley, Public Domain)
1. Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven, to earth come down;
fix in us thy humble dwelling;
all thy faithful mercies crown!
Jesus thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation;
enter every trembling heart.
2. Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit
into every troubled breast!
Let us all in thee inherit;
let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
end of faith, as its beginning,
set our hearts at liberty.
3. Come, Almighty to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return and never,
nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.
4. Finish, then, thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be.
Let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee;
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.
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