Prayer for the Week — Dec. 2

For this week’s prayer, we borrowed from an old favorite, the Prayer of St. Francis.  May God be with you all this week.  — Rev. Rachel

God who is constantly calling us toward your redemption, open our ears this Advent season.  Help us to hear your joy, your love, your call to serve:

Make us instruments of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let us sow love. 

Where there is injury, pardon.

Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light.

Where there is sadness, joy.

O Great Giver of Life,

grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;

to be understood, as to understand;

to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen.