Holy God:
We thank you for your great love for us, we thank you for the great world you have created. We thank you for the blessings of life and the opportunity to know and serve you.
We thank you for Jesus, who took flesh and walked among us. He left the glory of heaven and experienced life as we live it. We remember that he came proclaiming the Kingdom of God. We have never quite understood what he meant. How much he must have seen a broken world and known that things could be different. He certainly taught us to live differently, to value different things than this world values, to invest our lives in the things this world finds worthless, to find treasure where the world see nothing particularly important.
We are grateful because he gave up everything the world says matters in order to spend his life for the sake of love. That love has made all the difference for us.
So teach us to see as he saw, to put our whole energy, our greatest joy and our only priority, into things that remain, things of heaven things that matter in God’s eyes.
Give us a divine urgency for love, for grace, for friendship, for forgiveness, for joy, for children, for praise, for prayer, for healing, for the face of God, for the least among us. All those things that seem like religious words were those things for which you gave your life. So give us new eyes. May we give our lives for those things.
Amen.
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