Prayer for the Week: You love us as individuals, and you love us into community. Creative God, we are designed to find life and joy in relationship. Whether we name it or not, our lives are a web of dependency, woven together for reciprocity and health. As our egos grow, and our passion for individualism overshadows reality, reveal once again the divine intent for your creation. Your hope embodied in Jesus teaches us how to live responsibly and respectfully, yet as we grow in our admiration of your grace, we begin to see life, not lived for self, but for the sake of others. May your church, may Cypress Creek Christian Church, represent to the neighborhoods around us a clear picture of this self-giving and self-sacrificing love. Though, at times, we will fail, we know that your mercy will not turn away. You will remain faithful to us as we strive to demonstrate how you intended for us to live together. May the love of Jesus be the paradigm that continues to pull us forward into a greater expression of life together. May the poor and the rich and everyone in between – may the healthy and sick and everyone in between – may the hopeful and hopeless and everyone in between – find their place in this larger body made holy and beautiful by you, Lord God. This we request through the power of Jesus Christ. Amen.
