04/21/2014 - Daily Prayer

Creator of all humanity,
You have blessed us by creating us in Your image, each of us containing great potential and possibilities. Goethe spoke of each individual’s capacity for greatness when he wrote: “If you treat me as if I were what I ought to be and could be, I will become what I ought to be and could be.”
If we look into our own lives we can find that because of at least one or two people who had faith not so much in who we are, but in who we could become, we found the strength and ability within us to rise to greater heights.
Similarly, each of us has the capacity to help others reach their higher potential if we simply treat them in a way that reflects what they can and ought to be.
May we be so blessed to live in a world where we both see and nurture the potential for greatness that dwells in those around us, and may we have the resolve to help them fulfill those expectations. May this be God’s will.--AMEN.