Parkminster Blessing

1. 1Life-giving God, we give you praise for the desire for a deeper relationship that you have placed in each one of these individuals...
2. We thank you for the vision that has inspired these journeys...
3. We praise you for families and friends that have worked to make these things possible...and for all of those who have been companions on the journey.
4. Bless now these people as they walk and serve, that they may come to know themselves better, be drawn closer to their companions on the journey, and that through this they may know a oneness with you and all creation.
5. Bless these feet that will walk the sacred earth, travelled by thousands of pilgrims before...
6. Bless these boots that they may provide sure footing and cushion the body through these many days and weeks of walking...
7. Bless these packs, their contents and this clothing, that they may prove adequate for both comfort and survival...
8. Bless these relationships, that life-long friendships may be forged that are deeper than words.
9. Bless the conversations, the service to others, the struggles and the triumphs, the pains and the joys, that in all of these things your presence may be felt.
10. Bless our whole community as we uphold each other in prayer through the coming weeks until we are reunited again on Anniversary Sunday.
11. In all of these things, praise by to you, life-giving, life-affirming, life-enabling God.

Keith Hagerman