Praying with Walter Brueggemann

O for a thousand tongues to sing
our great redeemer’s name;
To sing beyond ourselves, extravagantly,
with abandonment,
beyond our possibilities,
and all our fears,
and all our hopes…

to our redeemer dear, the antidote to death,
the salve to our wounds,
the resolve of our destructiveness…

A thousand, a million, a trillion tongues,
more than our own,
more than our tradition,
more than our theology,
more than our understanding,

tongues around us,
tongues among us,
tongues from our silenced parts.

Tongues from us to you in freedom and in courage,
Finally ceding our lives and our loves to your good care. Amen.

From Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth, pg. 9