I was just thinking
how you call me to love
as you love, Lord;
how your love overflows
with mercy and kindness;
how you always forgive me,
again and again;
how you call me to love, Lord,
as you love me...
I was just thinking, Lord:
how you bathe me in kindness,
a gift of pure grace;
how your mercy stands ready
before I have sinned;
how you never refuse
my prayer for your pardon;
how you call me to love, Lord,
as you love me...
I was just thinking,
how you offer me, always,
a fresh, clean slate;
how you never hold on
to a grudge or resentment;
how you welcome me back,
time after time;
how you call me to love, Lord,
as you love me...
And so I pray tonight, Lord:
help me love with your generous kindness;
help me forgive, again and again;
help me pardon, freely and fully;
help me forgive as you forgive me;
help me to love as you call me to love,
help me to love, Lord,
as you love me...
Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake
and watch over me as I sleep
that awake, I might keep watch with you
and asleep rest in your peace...
Amen.
Where Charity and Love Prevail
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Where charity and love prevail,
there God is ever found;
Brought here together by Christ’s love,
by love are we thus bound.
With grateful joy and holy fear
His charity we learn;
Let us with heart and mind and soul
now love him in return.
Forgive we now each other’s faults
as we our faults confess;
And let us love each other well
in Christian holiness.
Let strife among us be unknown,
let all contention cease;
Be his the glory that we seek,
be ours his holy peace.
Let us recall that in our midst
dwells God’s begotten Son;
As members of his body joined,
we are in Christ made one.
No race or creed can love exclude,
if honored be God’s name;
Our family embraces all
whose Father is the same.
there God is ever found;
Brought here together by Christ’s love,
by love are we thus bound.
With grateful joy and holy fear
His charity we learn;
Let us with heart and mind and soul
now love him in return.
Forgive we now each other’s faults
as we our faults confess;
And let us love each other well
in Christian holiness.
Let strife among us be unknown,
let all contention cease;
Be his the glory that we seek,
be ours his holy peace.
Let us recall that in our midst
dwells God’s begotten Son;
As members of his body joined,
we are in Christ made one.
No race or creed can love exclude,
if honored be God’s name;
Our family embraces all
whose Father is the same.
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