Prayer Offered for August 28, 2024

O God of gifts, quicken in me a sense of humor

bright enough to help me find my way

in these tarnished times,

fruitful enough to be made the wine of hope

to warm the hearts of those I live and work with.

Make me glad to be one of a kind,

yet one with a kind,

called not to be more like others,

but more of myself,

a guerrilla of grace,

that, in daring to be authentic,

I may become more of a human-kind.

O God of gifts, liberate me to share,

without apology or arrogance,

not only the gifts I have,

but the gift I am.—AMEN.

_{(From Guerrillas of Grace by Ted Loder)}