O Lord,
As those who bear your name,
hear our prayers, please,
as we seek your face,
as we seek your peace,
as we seek to be faithful
to your will for our lives
and for your world.
As we seek to engage the world
and its brokenness,
let us not forget our own:
help us offer to you all that we are.
You have invited us into your
presence that we might know
your inclusive love,
that our sin would be forgiven
and that whatever has hurt us or
stunted our growth in loving you,
others and ourselves as
you intended might be healed.
Empower us through your Holy Spirit
so that we might be different.
Instead of anxiety, let us know and practice patience.
Instead of fear, let us lean on faith.
Instead of anger, let us show we are acquainted with mercy.
Instead of bitterness, let us be trusting and gentle.
Instead of seeking the false promise
of safety in tribe, nationality or clan,
let us commit all
we have and all we are
toward the reconciliation
of all people as your children
and for the healing of the beautiful earth
which you made and have promised
to redeem, too.
Amen.
(-Robert Guffey / bg@lightreading.org / bguffey@freemasonstreet.org)
(photo: Church of St. Thomas More, NYC, 10/28/24)
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