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Dear
God,
we
love to run and walk,
to
jump and dance.
Thank
you for our bodies.
We
love to feel happy
we
love to feel loved.
Thank
you for our feelings.
Amen.
The
Gunning
Fog readability index suggests 3.2 years of formal education is
required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common
Worship prayer requires 25.61 years.
Here's
the information on how this prayer is a reboot.
The
Second Sunday of Lent Collection of 5 prayers is here.
You
can also look at the full Index
of Prayers.
The
project began Advent 2012, the first phase concludes in 2016.
If
you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author
and, if there's space, the link to my blog
would be much appreciated.
2 comments:
So glad you're still here Jeremy. It's been a while since I've need one of your great reboot's and I've had a new computer and developed a dodgy memory so I had to ask Twitter to re-find you, but you're safely bookmarked for the future.
Going to use this one this week in the little Family Eucharist in my curacy parish (not sure I was even ordained last time I was here), but if you don't mind, I want to change the 6th line slightly... for the 'love to be loved' thing doesn't work following the previous line. I think I'm going down the line of 'want to be loved' if that's OK.
Still doesn't sit well with the rather tricky Gospel reading that isn't going to be easy with a bunch of infant age kids - but sometimes we just have to do our best.
Go well and God bless
R
Thanks so much R! I agree you have a point, it's a strange change from 'feel happy' to 'feel loved' ... it'd be interesting to hear if it made more sense when you read it.
I appreciate your feedback very much, I will think about changing the text to what you suggest.
Jeremy
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