Through
The Dead Sea is dead not because it does not receive what it needs from the Jordan River that flows into it but because it has no outlet streams through which to pass along what it receives; therefore, it stagnates.
We thank you, O God, for the many vital and helpful gifts that we receive from you: grace, mercy, love, forgiveness, peace, faith, and hope—just to name a few.
Guard us against the mistake of trying to keep those gifts to ourselves. Keep us aware of the danger of personal stagnation if we do so; guard us against our hoarding of those good gifts that can transform them into traits like pride, arrogance, selfishness, judgmentalism, self-righteousness, and insufferability.
Help us to develop outlets of awareness, compassion, sacrifice, and service that will allow the grace, mercy, love, forgiveness, peace, faith, and hope that flow from you into us to flow through us and out to others.
Amen.
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