Gracious God, through whom we find wholeness and home, free us from the exiles of our own making. Free us from wandering without purpose into knowing our value as your child. Free us from dependency on the things and people and places that only ask of us, into environments that also give and receive us well. Free us from fear and cowardice, into the joy of seeking the well-being among whom we live. Forgive us this day for the times we have failed to love our neighbor, our enemy, and ourselves. Free us for joyful obedience in your graceful kingdom.
Holy Father, Father of Christ who loved the Jew and the Samaritan, who ate with Pharisees and tax collectors, grant that our journey, O God of hosts, is saturated with peace and overflowing with grace. Help us to oppose the forces of wickedness through the power of great love, a passion that humbles the proud and confuses the powerful.
Sovereign Lord, God of all by the power of the Holy Spirit, help us to pray without ceasing and in all things give thanks. Help us to run without stumbling, and by grace when we do, help us to stumble forward. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.