Aware/Unaware
Today we will touch lives with love and influence people with grace—and we will be aware that it has happened; today we will touch lives with love and influence people with grace—and we will be unaware that it has happened.
Today we will touch lives through rejection and influence people through indifference—and we will be aware that it has happened; today we will touch lives through rejection and influence people through indifference—and we will be unaware that it has happened.
We thank you, O God, for the privilege to touch people in the ways your Son teaches us to touch them; we are humbled when we know it has happened because we made the intentional effort to do so and are gratified when we don’t know it has happened because by your grace and Spirit it just came naturally to us.
We repent, O God, for our failure to touch people in the ways your Son teaches us to touch them; we hurt when we know it has happened because we made the conscious decision not to do it and we hurt over the times when we don’t know it has happened because, due to our busyness or self-centeredness or apathy, our neglect just came naturally to us.
Keep us unaware of the good we do that comes naturally.
Make us more aware of the good we fail to do that comes naturally.
Amen.
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