We treasure what you end...

I read this prayer by Walter Bruggemann this morning, and it touched me deeply. Particularly the lines about being of two minds - treasuring what is ending and fearing the new things God is bringing. And yet, my heart, as with this prayer, cries out to trust God still...

"We treasure what you end"

We confess that we are set this day in the midst
of your awesome, awful work.
We will, because we have no alternative,
be present this day
to your dreadful work of termination.
We watch while you pull down
and dismantle
that with which you are finished.
We will, because we have no alternative,
be present this day
to your dream-filled work
of evoking,
imagining,
forming,
and inviting.
We are double-minded in your presence,
because we treasure what you end
and we fear what you conjure -
but we are your people
and trust you all this day
in your awesome,
awful work.
Override our reluctance
and take us with you
in justice
and mercy
and peace.
Take us with you in your overriding,
that our day may be a day of joy
and well-being
and newness
from your very hand.
In the name of your decisive newness,
even Jesus. Amen.