Lenten Meditation for Today : The Mission Prayer

God, go with us. Help us to be an honor to the church. Give us the grace to follow Christ’s word, to be clear in our task and careful in our speech. Give us open hands and joyful hearts. Let Christ be on our lips. May our lives reflect a love of truth and compassion. Let no one come to us and go away sad. May we offer hope to the poor, and solace to the disheartened. Let us so walk before God’s people, that those who follow us might come to his kingdom. Let us sow living seeds, words that are quick with life, that faith may be the harvest in peoples’ hearts. In word and example, let your light shine in the dark like a morning star Do not allow the wealth of the world or its enchantment flatter us into silence as to your truth Do not permit the powerful, or judges, or our dearest friends to keep us from professing what is right. Amen 

~Rachel Held Evans