A Prayer for Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Forty-Fifth Day of Easter

O God,

I want to live.

I don’t want to survive; I don’t want to exist; I don’t want to make it through somehow.

I want to live.

I want to live in freedom, unencumbered by guilt or fear or shame.

I want to live in community, giving and receiving in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.

I want to live in grace, motivated only by your love for me and my love for you.

I want to live in humility, gladly regarding others as better than myself and gladly giving myself up for them.

I want to live in you, knowing that my life comes from your life and so is eternal.

I want to live. I want truly to live.

Help me to live, O God . . .

Amen.