SWIC prayer of the week 3.20.06

We give you thanks,
Gentle One who has touched our soul.
You have loved us from
the moment of our first waking
and have held us in joy and in grief.
Stay with us, we pray.
Grace us with your presence
and with it, the fullness of our own humanity.
Help us claim our strength and need,
our awesomeness and fragile beauty,
that encouraged by the truth
we might work to restore
compassion to the human family
and renew the face of the earth.
 
Amen
 
(from More Than Words: Prayer and Ritual for Inclusive Communities
Janet Schaffran & Pat Kozak, 1992)