Prayer: Defying Expectation


We are sinners…
            we are not only sinners
We are weak…
            we are not only weak
We fail…
            we are not always failures
We have destroyed…
            also we have loved

You, God, do not limit us
to the stories by which the world knows us
You see much more in us
than the labels we give ourselves
Give us courage to defy all expectations –
especially our own –
and in your love
become all of who we are.

~ written by Cheryl Lawrie and posted on [hold this space].  http://holdthisspace.org.au/