Friday, June 14, 2013

A Prayer for Friday, June 14, 2013

Choices, Part 10

O God,

Help us today to choose knowledge over ignorance.

Help us to choose knowledge of the world over ignorance of the world. Help us to understand that we are all limited by our context and by our experiences and lead us to expand our context and to broaden our experiences in whatever ways we can, such as through travel, through conversation, and through reading. Deliver us from narrow-mindedness.

Help us to choose knowledge of people over ignorance of people. Help us to enter into conversation with the people in our community; lead us to get to know each other. Lead us to do all we can to understand and to appreciate people of other places, other cultures, and other faiths. Deliver us from stereotyping any group of people.

Help us to choose knowledge of you over ignorance of you. Thank you for revealing yourself to us in so many ways, but especially through your Son Jesus and through your ongoing presence with us through your Spirit. Help us to take advantage of the opportunity to commune with you and to listen to you and lead us always to be growing in our relationship with you. Deliver us from settling for speculation over relationship.

Help us today to choose knowledge over ignorance.

Amen.

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