God of Abraham,
Who sustains us through relationship
over rightness,
Through covenant over correctness.
We ask that you speak in and through your church.
Teach us to love what you love.
Make us mediators of your light to the world.
Not the easy light of Sunday school songs,
But the radical light of redress and recompense.
May the dungeon’s doors be cast wide open
and those seasoned fears, those generational wounds
Be tended to with our very lives.
Teach us to be a community of forgiveness, that draws
Endlessly from your love until we learn
That we are all, in fact, the other - all of us grasping
For love in wrong places.
Teach us to reach for one another because the value of the other
Is that it is in the other, that we find You.

Amen