God who created my heart
With a hunger for relationship,
Feed me.
Give me humility and honesty
To admit the depth of my desire.
Give me wisdom
To know friend from foe
And to give generously of myself to both,
While guarding my heart
Which you entrusted to me.
Give me courage
To risk relationship
And sometimes, to draw a line in the sand.
Give me a generous love
As you gave me your extravagant love
To make relationship transformative
Instead of self-serving.
Father of all,
Give us an appetite for the real deal
So we may systematically spurn substitutes.
Give us wholeness
As in our impetuousness and fragility
We mangle each others' hearts.
Shape us instead into agents of your healing,
As we - made in your image - overflow
From an abundance of your crazy love,
Giving all the credit to you
As you create butterfly transformations
In our caterpillar lives.
credits: photo from the blog of Heidi Cassadas
