Friday, November 21, 2014

A Prayer for Friday, November 21, 2014

Together

O God,

According to your Book, you are in Christ bringing all things together; you are in Christ making all things one.

That’s an amazing goal considering the expansiveness of the Universe and the diversity among people.

But you are God and if that’s what you say you’re doing then that’s what you’re doing. We acknowledge that we can celebrate it but that we can’t understand it.

So we thank you for what you are doing and we ask that you give us grace, love, and determination to participate in and to contribute to what you are doing.

Help us to commit our lives to helping bring things together; help us to live in pursuit of greater understanding of your Creation and to support those who give their lives to the pursuit of understanding it so that we can better comprehend the ways in which this planet and this Universe work so that we can participate better in your work of bringing all things together.

Help us to commit our lives to helping bring people together; help us to live in pursuit of greater understanding of, respect for, and concern for each other. Show us how to seek unity in our families, in our churches, in our communities, in our nation, and in our world. Give us a commitment to peace with a goal of not just reducing conflict but of building real relationships.

We praise you for what you are doing to bring all people and all things together.
We ask you to give us courage and commitment to be a part of it.

Amen.

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