The Carpenter – A Prayer - v2

Dear Lord,

Before you were the Good Shepherd,

you were the carpenter’s son,

a carpenter yourself.

We can learn much, from you

the carpenter, even as

the fishermen did,

after your rising.

Cutting with the grain,

planing the boards level,

sanded smooth, measuring,

Planning, drafting and

redrafting, before the first cut,

long before the nailing.

Help us be your hands, using the tools,

our skills, the blueprint,

for this work and our lives

and for the people we are helping.

Guide us Lord to follow

the plans of the Carpenter

and Creator, the Master Architect.

Amen.

Edited May 5, 2013 and May 11, 2013

“The Carpenter – A Prayer – v2”

August 5, 2007 10:25am, edited August 8, 2007 8:30am

“The Carpenter – A Prayer”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2007/08/carpenter-prayer.html

for the prayer for devotion time

Our mission trip,

from Wesley United Methodist Church,

Concord, NH and from First United Methodist Church,

Hudson, MA to Jacksonville and Machias, ME

to the Down East Maine Mission,

Jacksonville United Methodist Campground,

East Machias, ME

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