Prayer Offered for June 14, 2021

People walked through my prayers

And I never noticed,

Intent on my own affairs.

People walked through my prayers

And I saw them—

Intrusive, disrupting, distracting.

[Now] people walk through my prayers

And I include them—

Caring, giving, blessing.

People walk through my prayers

And change me—

[Sometimes] disturbing, demanding, enlarging.

People walk through my prayers

And embrace me—

Healing, loving, forgiving.

People walk through my prayers

Bearing the Christ—

Transforming me.

_{(Susan Baker-Lehne)}

Loving God, help us to look deeply into the hearts of those who walk through our prayers so that we may know our interconnectedness with one another.—AMEN.