First Sunday of Lent, Collect (Redub)

God of power and peace,

your Spirit cast* out

Jesus the Christ-servant

into the wilderness.

Angels and animals were with Jesus.

Just as Christ stayed in your love

may we stay with you even

when the journey is hard.

Gift us, too, with the company of

animals and messengers of peace.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 9.82 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 31.94 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a redub.

The First Sunday of Lent Collection of 5 prayers is here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project began Advent 2012, the first phase concludes in 2016.

If you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author and, if there's space, the link to my blog would be much appreciated.

*Alternatives I considered to 'cast' were 'sent', 'shoved', 'dragged', 'pushed', 'pulled' and 'bounced'.