Renew Our Spirits Within Us

Today’s prayer was taken from Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book and was written by Margaret Cropper (1886-1980), an English poet, author, and close friend of Evelyn Underhill. I appreciate Cropper’s holistic approach to a journey of Christian faith and formation. This is not shallow poetry, so if you’re like me, you may need to read it more than once to fully appreciate the message. 

 Renew our spirits within us;

Renew our relationships; our work; our

Capacities and gifts; our strength.

Renew our prayer.

Teach us our new song, our new name.

That we may put on the new humanity, which after

God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

For if anyone be in Christ, they are a new creature. *

Old things are passed away.

Behold all things are become new. **

So shall You put a new song into our mouth,

Ever a thanksgiving unto our God.

Amen

* Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!   2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)

**He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.  Psalm 40:3 (NIV)

Renewal blessings to you,

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