Preparing for the Sabbath

Douglas Wilson, at Blog and Mablog, has composed a series of Sabbath Prayers. They are used as part of a "sabbath dinner liturgy we follow every Saturday evening at the Wilson home." The prayers are very good — anyone who wishes to formally recognize the beginning of the Sabbath could use them [although seventh day Sabbatarians will need to make an occasional minor emendation]. The most recent [number 88!] is below. All of them can be found here.

Father, we thank You for yet another Sabbath, where we may sit down together with friends and other members of our family in order to prepare our hearts to worship You in the morning. We thank You for connecting us to one another the way You have done, and we pray that a spirit of peace and contentment would be pervasive in our relationships with one another. Help this meal to embody that, and we ask for this IN JESUS’ NAME, AMEN.

[An explanation of a Seventh Day Baptist position on the Sabbath can be found here, and another here.]

BLOG and MABLOG: Sabbath Prayers