Thursday, July 19, 2007
A Prayer and Blessing
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom, and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain to joy. And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.
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In many ways, I think this prayer reaches back into the deep corners of Christian history. It has something of the desert fathers to it, a splash of anabaptist passion, and a sense of the transforming power of Christ that the earliest Christ followers lived out so clearly.
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