Channels of Light, Love, and Life

Oh Jesus,
May your light, love, and life
Be our joy and our hope,
Our faith, compassion, and kindness.

May your word, Jesus,
Be like water,
Washing the dirt from our consciences,
Not merely to gesture,
But to renew us completely.

Renew our hearts,
For a healed heart
Is a whole heart.

Keep your love true within us,
For untrue love is no love at all.
Love that is untrue
Is as good as none.

O God, keep your light true.
Let the Holy Spirit
Make us channels
Of love, of life, and of light,
For your greater glory.

For our glory is nothing.
The glory of God
Is love and peace,
Compassion, kindness, and mercy.

Your mercy does not run out
For those who truly want it,
For those willing to change.

But time will run out
For those who refuse to change their ways.
Teach us to seek you
With whole hearts,
Whole minds,
And whole souls.

If we reject Jesus,
How can we enter heaven?
There is no other way
Than the name and teachings of Christ,
Given through his apostles.

Oh Jesus,
May your life
And your teachings
Be our lasting joy
And our salvation.

Teach us to live with kindness,
With love and compassion,
For what we do to others
We do to Christ.

Be our daily bread,
Our firm foundation,
And our medicine.
Let compassion
Be oil in our lamps.

Keep your ways pure and true,
Carry us through easy times
And through hardship,
For there is a time of plenty
And a time of gleaning.

Amen.