Sacredise - Prayer: Seeing

Seeing

by John van de Laar

Keep us from our self-imposed blindness, Jesus;
   hold our heads firmly in your grasp so we cannot look away
        from those who are broken;
   pull us forward so that we cannot avoid
        encountering those who are suffering;
   break our hearts, so that we cannot resist
        the tears of those who grieve;

Help us, Jesus, to be always seeing;
   and seeing, help us to find a way
        to act in mercy toward the hurting,
        to act in defiance of the corrupt,
        and to act in hope for the healing of our world.

Amen.

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