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A Covenant PrayerThis is a reworking of the powerful Wesleyan
covenant prayer written for a short act of worship at St. Cadmarch's Church
developing themes of betrothal and a covenant with the land. Charles Wesley was
married by his brother John not far from here at Llanlleonfel church God of the land and God of life. We are born of the earth and together we are called into partnership with you: no longer separate but betrothed in a fresh covenant of love. Draw us into your love beyond celebrity, beyond fame active in your purposes, unashamed of suffering working for you and resting in your pleasure. Whether we attract publicity or remain obscure we desire only to drink your rain and be bathed by your sunshine, to sleep beneath the coverlet of your clouds and live in harmony with your earth. So now we voice to you the longing of all creation - that our loneliness and separation be ended and that all of us: people and land, and every living creature be co-celebrants in the wedding feast of the Lamb and so enter into your vast embrace. |