Monday, March 2, 2009

A Blessing For Lent


Here is a blessing our pastor has been saying at the end of each service. I absolutly LOVE it and I'm going to have it framed and put on my wall!



May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.

May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.

May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.

And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.


3 comments:

The Southern Mint Julep said...

Wouldn't this be a grand world if we all could have these traits to react to these problems.

Beautiful prayer.

Brian said...

OMG, my typical complete lack of any religious scruples notwithstanding, I LOVE THIS!!! I want a framed copy too!

diane b said...

Sounds great