A Prayer for the Love of Life
O God, who deemed the creation exceedingly good, richly supplies us with all things to enjoy, and through the raising of Jesus from the dead infuses the world with life ever new: awaken in your people an undreamt-of love for life, loosen the shackles of cynicism and jaded despair and lighten upon us the daybreak colors of the new creation, that as we open to the world, faith, hope and love would once again flow freely in the risky endeavor of whole-hearted living, expecting the rebirth of everything that lives by the quickening of the Spirit, and with this expectation, experiencing our own rebirth, and the rebirth we share with everything else, through Jesus the Messiah our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Inspired by Jurgen Moltman’s Spirit of Life
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Comment from admin
Time: July 19, 2008, 5:47 pm
I think all prayer needs to take the form of run on sentences of whom the Apostle Paul seems to be the fountain head of inspiration. Don’t be deceived by your English translations. Ephesians 1:3-23 is only two sentences in the original Greek (vv. 3-14 and 15-23 being one sentence each) with subordinate clause upon subordinate clause. Vv. 3-14 has 317 words in Greek. Vv. 15-23 is only 267 words. Didn’t Paul tell us to be imitators of him in 1 Cor. 4.16? 
Comment from Christine
Time: July 21, 2008, 6:27 am
Yeah… I tend to get lost in Paul’s prayers, too.
I guess that’s just another difference between me and God…
Comment from Christine
Time: July 18, 2008, 2:38 am
Wow. I like it.
One question, though: Is there a reason that had to all fit into one sentence? I had to read it a few times because I would start to get lost in the unending flow of sentence-ness. (Pauses do the brain good… they give us time to take things in… a moment for processing before heaping on additional words.)
134 words… that may be the longest sentence that I’ve seen you write. (And we’ve already talked about a few exceedinlyg lengthy sentences. So that’s really saying something.)
In any case… your long sentence is full of a lot of really good stuff.