Alive
O God,
For as long as we live on this Earth, let us be fully alive.
We acknowledge our limitations; there are things we cannot know, things we cannot understand, things we cannot do, and things we cannot be because we are human and because of our particular genetic makeup.
Still, there are so many limitations that we accept that are not imposed on us; there are so many narrow and shallow attitudes, mindsets, assumptions, customs, and ways that we accept and follow uncritically and that keep us from experiencing life in all its wonder and glory.
Show us any such things in our life that drain life from us rather than pour life into us; show us how to turn away from them and to turn toward other attitudes, mindsets, assumptions, customs, and ways that would make us more fully alive.
For as long as we live on this Earth, let us be fully alive.
And when our life here is over, make us more alive than we ever thought possible.
Amen.
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