Friday Prayer

 

Please pray with me: God, thank you, for people who love us unconditionally and unceasingly.  Thank you for people who take Your love from an intellectual concept and put words/flesh/breath/bone into Your presence.  Thank you especially for those who love us when we cannot love ourselves.  Thank you for authors and artists who add sweet and savory spices to the recipe of relationships.  God, we are an ever-changing concoction of You, Your image surging within us, and others’ presence in our lives.  At the same time, we are more than the sum of our experiences and encounters.  Your grace tells us that one plus one doesn’t equal two, but there is a cumulative and ever evolving dynamic to relationships. Thank you, God, for all the people who we’ve named this week in the index of the book of love in our lives.  Thank you, O God, that You who has become known to us in real ways this week in our interactions and encounters.  May our relationship with You, with ourselves, and with others continue to be caught up in Your wisdom and will for this world and for us.  In the name of the One who gathered twelve friends as life’s companions, Jesus the Christ. Amen.