Walter Brueggeman

My new favourite book is a collection of Walter Brueggeman's prayers. And this is why:

"All power, honour, glory be to you!
You... sometimes hidden, silent, absent, unresponsive.
We are so privileged that we seldom sense you
hidden, silent, absent, unresponsive.
But we know people who do,
we think of places where you do not appear.
We imagine you defeated
weak,
held captive.
And we wait a day
two days,
until the third day.
And then, most often then,
quite reliably then,
you appear then in your full glory.
This day we pray against your absence, silence, and hiddeness.
Come with your full power into deathly places,
and we will praise you deep and full. Amen."
- Walter Brueggeman