Saturday, September 1, 2012

A Prayer for Saturday, September 1, 2012

Vicariously

To live vicariously is imaginatively to experience something through someone else.

Football season may be the time of year when more Americans experience that kind of vicarious living than at any other time; we live and die through our favorite teams.

To live vicariously is also to go through something in place of or for the sake of someone else, not imaginatively but actually.

Remind us, O Lord, of the vicarious nature of your grace and love that led you actually to enter into our suffering and our death so as to help us to bear it and so as eventually to overcome it.

Empower us, O Lord, by your grace, love, and Spirit that are in us, to live vicarious lives in which we enter actually into the suffering of other people so as to help them bear it and to overcome it.

Amen.

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