A New Song

A while ago, Jennifer at Conversion Diary had a wonderful post about how some of the prayers she was praying through in the liturgy of the hours didn't seem to apply to her at that moment in life and she had come to pray them for others, even those she didn't know.

It struck me like a ton of bricks.

Now, I am not Catholic and do not pray through a liturgy. I'm evangelical. We sing.

A lot.

I think by the time I was ten I had half the hymn book memorized. I had expressed my boredom one day to someone much wiser than I and they told me to pray what I was singing.

So I do.

Just not about me anymore. Well, not much. I am trying.

Thanks to two very wise people I have forever changed the way I view "worship time" at church. While I still worship, it is also I time I reach out and worship on behalf of those who are so burdened that they cannot yet praise. I then hope that someday we will stand together and sing. If not here, then hereafter.

Maricella needs compassion,

A love that's never failing,

let mercy fall on her,

Nidal Hasan needs forgiveness,

The Kindness of a Saviour,

The Hope of nations,

Saviour, you can move the Mountains,

So I ask that you save,

You are mighty to Save,

Forever, be their salvation

For them you rose from the grave,

That's why you rose from the grave.

So Take Mar as you find her,

All her fears and failures,

Fill her life up new,

May she give her life to follow,

May you be the one she believes in,

Help her to surrender,

Jesus you can move these mountains

You are mighty to save,

Mighty to save,

May they take your salvation

Save them from the grave,

You can save them from the grave.