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Prayers for Climbers
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Climber's Prayer by Lance Johnson
-Blessing for Climbers and
Their Equipment (found in the Teton Chapel)
by Lance Johnson
The Mountains
Dear God, you have created us, and all that we
have around us; the soil, sky, sun, moon, seasons,
weather, water, wind and rock. Lord,we marvel
at this world made in such perfection. Thank you
for these beautiful mountains, the rock, the crisp
clean air, the many statesof water; clouds, rain,
snow, ice, lakes, and streams. Thank you for the
beauty we see, the beauty we touch, reminding
us of you.
Thank you for such an amazing playground, so
abundant, so perfect, beautifully rugged and so
provisional to so many different needs. As we
venture out on our climb today, be with us in
our diligence to intentionally respect and preserve
what you have created, leaving it as we have found
it, minimizing the impact, as we climb and descend,
caring for it as we can along the way, so that
we and others on a future day can experience this
awesome place, perhaps in a better condition than
we found it.
Safety
Please keep us, sustain us, and protect us in
any harsh weather we may encounter, and also from
natural and the humanly inherent hazards of our
sport. Help us endure the challenges before us,
reach our objectives, and keep us within a margin
of safety within our collective and individual
physical, technical and mental capabilities.
Decision Making
Help us we keep our objective today in the right
perspective, within reasonable and calculated
risk. On our climb, please preserve our lives,
our health, and the unity of our relationship
as climbing partners. Provide us wisdom, and courage
in our communication, respecting and honoring
each other’s input in weighing risks, and
working through decisions to go on, go up, go
down, stay put, or go home.
Comradery
Thank you for the special bond of our climbing
partnership. May our bond as friends and climbing
partners strengthen, as well as our appreciation
for each other, and our individually unique gifts
of athletic ability, technique, mountain sense,
decision making, sense of humor and other personality
traits. Help us recognize, value, and rely on
each other’s strengths to endure the challenges
of our objective, and deliver our team safely
back to our families.
Family
Please be with our loved ones at home. In our
absence, keep them safe and free of worry. Help
us capture the full joy of our experience with
renewed minds, so that upon our return, we can
also share our freshened perspective with the
ones we love, and better nurtureour relationships.
With this mountain experience, please clear our
minds, afford us better perspective, rejuvenating
our awareness and sense of purpose in our most
important priorities; first in our relationship
with you our God, and secondly with our families.
Privilege
Thank you for affording us our present health,
physical strength, endurance, and abilities. Thank
you for the opportunity to get out and move among
your awesome creation, and to experience your
gift of this perfect and abundant physical world
you made us all stewards of. Renew us spiritually
in this immersion in this isolated, calm, natural
perfection, and provision of your creation, away
from our routine environments and schedules.
In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
Lance Johnson
Community Chaplain/Climber Chaplain
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If you would like
to print out a copy of this prayer to fold up
and keep in your pack (or frame and hand on your
wall, Click on an image below.
Prayer Requests
If
you have an upcoming climb/expedition, and would
like additional support in prayer, submit your
prayer request here. Prayer requests for personal
needs also welcome.
Blessing For Climbers
and Their Equipment (as found in the Teton Chapel)
 
Teton
Chapel
Bless,
we beseech Thee, O Lord, these ropes, ice axes,
pitons and other instruments; so those who will
use them on the rough cliffs of the mountain in
ice, snow and storms may be preserved from any
fall or danger, may successfully reach the summit
and safely return to their own, through Jesus
Christ, Our Lord.
Protect,
O Lord, through the intercession of those blessed
Bernard, whom Thou hast given as a patron to those
who dwell and travel in the Alps, these servants
of Thine; and grant that as they ascend these
heights they may be made strong to reach the mountain
which is Christ, through the same Christ, O Lord.
Amen
If you would like
to print out a copy of this blessing to fold up
and keep in your pack (or frame and hand on your
wall, Click on an image below.
| Blessing for Climbers and their
Equipment- Full Color 5.5 X 8.5 PDF |
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| Blessing for Climbers and their
Equipment- Full Color 8.5 X 11 PDF |
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| Blessing for Climbers and their
Equipment- Full Color 11 X 17PDF |
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