Prayer Offered for June 6, 2024

If you wish to draw near to God, the Sufi poet Abu Sa’id tells us how:

If you wish to draw near to God,

seek God in the hearts around you.

Speak well of all, present or absent.

If you would be a light for others,

be like the sun: show the same face to all.

To bring joy to a single heart is better

than building countless shrines for worship;

To capture one heart through kindness is better

than setting a thousand free.

This is the true lover of God,

who lives with others,

rises and eats and sleeps like others,

gives and takes in the bazaar,

yet never forgets God even for a moment.

And on this 80th anniversary of D-Day: 

Gracious God, fill us with Your joy as we continue to grow closer to You and work for peace in our world.—AMEN.