A Litany of the compassionate love of God

 Thank you precious Lord Jesus that you are the Word who became flesh and lived among us, and that we have seen your glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

Triune God we thank you. Thank you that you journey with us.

Thank you our Shepherd Lord that you lead us into green pastures, beside still waters, restoring our souls. Thank you that you lead us in right paths for your name's sake.

Triune God we thank you. Thank you that you journey with us.

Thank you Lord that even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we fear no evil; for you are with us; your rod and your staff, they comfort us. Thank you that goodness and mercy shall surely follow us all the days of our lives

Triune God we thank you. Thank you that you journey with us.

 Father, we thank you that you have given us an Advocate, the Spirit of truth, who abides with us and is in us. Thank you that we have not been left orphaned, for you have come to us.

 Triune God we thank you. Thank you that you journey with us.

Let's say together the words of the psalmist:

Where can I go from your spirit?

Or where can I flee from your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, you are there;

if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,

even there your hand shall lead me,

and your right hand shall hold me fast.

If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me,

and the light around me become night’,

even the darkness is not dark to you;

the night is as bright as the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

Triune God we thank you. Thank you that you journey with us.

Lord we thank you for each other, that you call us to  provoke one another to love and good deeds, and to encourage one another. And thank you for the faithful saints who have gone before us,  so great a cloud of witnesses, and so let us also lay aside every weight and sin  and run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus so that we may not grow weary or lose heart.

Thank you triune God; thank you that you journey with us.

We have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

We are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, 20built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone;  a holy temple in the Lord; a dwelling place for God.

 Thank you triune God; thank you that you journey with us. Amen

(Praying Scripture from John 1, 14, 15; Psalms 23, 139; Hebrews 10-12; Ephesians 2 - This Litany was prepared by Ruth Norris, intern with the Simeon Centre, for the Lenten Quiet Day on 25th February 2012 and is reproduced with deep thanks.)