Williams Memorial Presbyterian Church

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
 a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.

Eternal
God, Loving Son, and Spirit of Truth, we understand that all of our days are
held lovingly in your hands. 
We entrust our lives to your loving care taking our refuge in you. 
We are born into hope and we die in hope because Jesus has given to us
his life, which is eternal. 
Life unfolds breath by breath, choice by choice, season by season, happening by
happening inviting us to trust that You are with us and inviting us to shed our
fears and to allow life to teach us. 
With you, O God, being held firmly in your hand we can welcome any and
all experiences as learning that strengthens us in faith and draws us into a
deeper, closer relationship with You. 
Sharing the life of Jesus, your Loving Son, we can receive truth because
we know that no matter what our truth is…it is mediated for our good and for our
healing by grace. 
And so we welcome your life in us and we welcome the guidance and illuminating voice of
the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. 
In this new year we ask that you draw us nearer to You; cast out our
fears and enable us to welcome one another with grace and love; heal our
brokenness and our wounds; through our trials and pain teach us and strengthen
us; and as each day passes be with us, Eternal God, Loving Son, and Spirit of
Truth.  In the strong name of Jesus
we pray.  AMEN.  

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