Here’s
an opening prayer from the website of Old South Church in Boston.
Opening Prayer
O
God,
you
broke down the barriers when you crept in beside us.
In
Jesus, your hands touched all, and touched us.
You
opened our eyes
to
see how the hands of the rich were empty,
and
the hearts of the poor were full.
You
took the widow’s mite and the child’s loaves
and
used them to show us the Kingdom.
Here
in the company of the neighbor whom we know
and
the stranger in our midst,
and
the self from whom we turn,
we
ask to love as Jesus loved.
Make
this the place and time, good Lord,
when
heaven and earth become one,
and
we in word and flesh
know
ourselves beloved. Amen.
~
posted on the website of Old South Church in Boston. http://www.oldsouth.org/sites/default/files/podcast-transcripts/Bulletin.01.22.12.pdf
