{"id":15,"date":"2008-09-22T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/textmessages\/2008\/09\/collect-prayer-for-the-week.html"},"modified":"2008-09-22T12:49:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:49:45","slug":"collect-prayer-for-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2008\/09\/collect-prayer-for-the-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Collect: Prayer for the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the timing of these things is uncanny. I spent part of the weekend with my stomach in knots and my head in fits over the news about the economy. The macro-level questions about the near future of our national and global markets are just staggering to consider (I&#8217;ve found <a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanscene.com\/archive\/?author=Jim+Manzi\">Jim Manzi<\/a> particularly helpful in sorting all this out), and all of that is a diversion away from the balance sheet in our own homes. Tough, mysterious, confusing, and not a little bit scary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So here&#8217;s the prayer for the week from the Book of Common Prayer. I find it at once comforting, honest, and challenging&#8212;it offers comfort through the act of trust, honesty through its admission that we exist in a context of temporality and materiality, and a challenge to choose deep within ourselves to hold fast only to what lasts:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the timing of these things is uncanny. I spent part of the weekend with my stomach in knots and my head in fits over the news about the economy. 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