Friday Prayer

 

Gazing God there is so much we need to learn about how You move in our midst and show up disguised as our lives.  What we have been taught and caught in the world, our default mode of operation is to glance ~ keep on moving.  We find ourselves glaring at others, especially those who don’t see the world the way we do.  We gnaw on the problems because they gnaw at us and we are convinced that if we just think harder, do more, we can solve the wounds of the world ~ all will be well.  Disrupt and interrupt our operating systems with a factory reset to gazing as the way of being.  Disorient us from turning to the same old script and expecting different answers.  Reorient us to return (repent and change our minds) that another way of being, Your way of being, in the world is possible.  When we pass by those who are hurting, sitting by a pool of their own tears, and are battered and bruised by the world/fellow featherless bipeds, awaken within us the gaze of the Good Samaritan.  When we are the one in the ditch, stuck and stymied by our own egos or glaring at others who have hurt us, help us see those who are anointing us with Your loving kindness.  May the parable of the Good Samaritan not just be words on a page, but a gospel, good news, to our thirsty souls in these days.  In the name of the One whose stories interrupt our story in the most beautiful ways, Jesus the Christ.  Amen.