Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: The Prayers

A collection of startlingly fresh and meaningful prayers from Walter Brueggemann, the leading Christian thinker and scholar.

Walter Brueggemann is Professor of Old Testament in the William Marcellus McPheeters Chair at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia.

Editor's Foreword

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Preface

xv

And then you --- Facing God

And then you

3

(1)

At the dawn

4

(1)

You live at the hinge

5

(1)

Stunned by the morning

6

(1)

We wait for you to ache

7

(1)

You . . . and therefore us

8

(1)

A thousand, a million, a trillion tongues

9

(1)

For how you hope

10

(1)

We say ``Yes, yes''

11

(1)

You with ears bent close to our lips

12

(1)

The other side of the street

13

(1)

Not at our beck and call

14

(1)

You sweep away what we treasure

15

(1)

No more sinking sand

16

(2)

Before the day is out

18

(1)

Three times holy

19

(1)

The place where you are curbed

20

(1)

Our true home

21

(4)

A people with many secrets --- Truth-telling confession

A people with many secrets

25

(1)

Like an endless falling

26

(1)

We treasure what you end

27

(1)

Not always for you

28

(1)

You who command

29

(1)

We also live double lives

30

(1)

An answering and refusing

31

(1)

Yours, and not ours

32

(1)

We are takers

33

(1)

Fashioning better guarantees

34

(1)

The God we would rather have

35

(1)

But now you know

36

(1)

Even on such a day

37

(4)

Against your absence --- A hidden God

Against your absence

41

(1)

Our despairing hope

42

(1)

No newness yet

43

(1)

You are known in hiddenness

44

(1)

You stay hidden within that misery

45

(1)

With or without you

46

(1)

Against a closed sky

47

(4)

We are ready to listen --- For illumination

We are ready to listen

51

(1)

Your command is garbled

52

(1)

Ears but do not hear

53

(1)

We would know more of you

54

(1)

The voice we can scarcely hear

55

(1)

The din undoes us

56

(1)

The grace to be haunted

57

(1)

Give us Saturday ears

58

(1)

Reach us

59

(2)

That we may change

61

(1)

Re-text us

62

(3)

Move off the page --- While reading texts

Move off the page

65

(1)

Before us

66

(1)

We try, as best we can, to live by bread alone

67

(1)

You turn tables

68

(1)

Teach us how to weep

69

(1)

Your world-forming speech

70

(1)

Your word

71

(1)

Our mother tongue

72

(1)

How you inhabit this text

73

(1)

Your new news

74

(1)

After the bitterness

75

(1)

When the world spins crazy

76

(1)

The poems conflict us

77

(1)

Soak our lives in it

78

(1)

Alabaster cities

79

(2)

We are children of another world

81

(4)

Awed to heaven, rooted in earth --- For the church in mission

Awed to heaven, rooted in earth

85

(2)

Not the God we would have chosen

87

(1)

Re-brand us

88

(1)

And we are different

89

(1)

A hard, deep call to obedience

90

(1)

Yes

91

(1)

We do not want to be arrested

92

(1)

Do not fear

93

(2)

Give us appropriate yielding

95

(1)

We are much drawn to circuses

96

(1)

Our right names

97

(2)

Be our primary disease

99

(1)

The anguish and burden of the message

100

(1)

With all the graciousness we can muster

101

(2)

Deliver us from amnesia

103

(1)

Demanding all, not too much, but all

104

(1)

Kingdoms rage . . . and we are called

105

(1)

Move us beyond ourselves

106

(5)

Start again --- For a bruised world

Start again

111

(1)

The threats do not wane

112

(1)

Their plowshares are beat into swords

113

(2)

Reform our deformed lives

115

(2)

Work your wonders

117

(1)

In the midst of all the pushing and shoving

118

(1)

Come to our shut down places

119

(1)

We are all in hock

120

(1)

While the world says ``not possible''

121

(2)

We are not self-starters

123

(1)

Be your powerful, active, sovereign self

124

(1)

Friday is your day of entry

125

(1)

Into our several hells

126

(1)

Is there a balm . . . in Gilead or anywhere?

127

(2)

Ours is a seduced world

129

(1)

Ceding our end to you

130

(3)

We will not keep silent --- Cadences of gratitude

We will not keep silent

133

(1)

You give . . . and we receive

134

(1)

The God who yearns and waits for us

135

(1)

The gratitude we intend

136

(1)

We are second and you are first

137

(2)

With you it is never ``more or less''

139

(1)

Giver, Giver, Giver

140

(1)

Larger than fear

141

(1)

We notice your giving

142

(5)

Occupy our calendars --- Praying the Christian Year

Occupy our calendars

147

(1)

The grace and the impatience to wait --- Advent

148

(1)

In violence and travail --- Christmas

149

(1)

There is a time to be born, and it is now --- Epiphany

150

(2)

Not yet as light as hope --- Shrove Tuesday

152

(1)

Loss is indeed our gain --- Lent

153

(1)

Revise our taking --- Lent

154

(1)

Or did we get it wrong --- Lent

155

(1)

In the name of the bruised one --- Holy Week

156

(1)

Held back --- Holy Week

157

(1)

The pivot of hope --- Maundy Thursday

158

(1)

The terrible silencing we cannot master --- Good Friday

159

(2)

Not the kingdom of death --- Easter

161

(1)

We are baffled --- Easter

162

(1)

You who stalk the earth with new life --- Easter

163

(1)

But not held --- Easter

164

(1)

Easter us --- Easter

165

(2)

To make things new that never were --- Pentecost

167

(1)

We wait . . . but not patiently --- Reign of Christ

168

(1)

In these very late days --- Reign of Christ

169

(1)

Index of biblical references

170

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Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: The Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

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