ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHINGS
January 6, 2020
Prayer for the Week:
No category defines those who seek you –
No class or classification,
no degree or distinction,
no title or entitlement
delineates the boundaries
of those who yearn to know you.
O Holy One born in Bethlehem,
O Nativity of Grace
formed upon the earth,
the world is drawn to you
because of a deep yearning.
As we begin a new year
facing old issues –
weighed down by
brokenness
unresolved grief
trauma
emotional injury –
we acknowledge a force
greater than ourselves
that calls us forward and onward.
Call us to the journey,
not because
we have met certain criteria
or we score above average in math.
Call us to the journey
as it is the place where our spirits
are humbled before the way of love.
This is our request
in these early days of 2020,
a new year filled
with so much joyous potential. Amen.
