A prayer for the builders!

Sunday we discussed the story of the tower of Babel and we had a simple time of confession for our building!
For our pride and for our desire to make our names great.

Read through Gen 11

Here is a great prayer for us this week as we reflect deeply on the concept that His work > Our work:

We are among the builders,
We do silos and missile silos,
We do tall towers and large granaries,
We do pyramids and monuments and steeples and high rises,

We build because we are able,
because it looks good,
because it feels good,
because we have so much stuff to store we need bigger, better barns.

We make it tall and shiny & beautiful
only to discover that moth and rust consume,
only to discover that shiny surfaces turn empty shell,
only to discover that storage is for goods thatmelt and sour.

We end closer to empty-handed than we imagined.

As we are able we turn from our cities to you,
we turn from our successes to you,
we turn from our reason to you,
we turn from our power to you.

To you, to you, to you, to you,
our help is in no other save in you alone.
You only, you enough, you in your generosity.

Whom have we in heaven but you?
There is nothing on earth we desire but you!

-prayer by Walter Bruegemann