October Twenty-Nineteen

       October 2019 

   "O God, who created all people in your image....

We give you thanks for the diversity

of races and cultures in this world...

,and for the ways in which that beauty can be seen

here in our neighborhoods...

Enrich our lives, we pray,

By ever-widening circles of fellowship,

 and show us your presence

in those who differ most from us,

until our knowledge of your love is made perfect

in our love for all Your children.

Look with compassion, we pray, on all of us who are

bound together in the common life of this neighborhood.

         Grant that your holy and life-giving spirit

may so move our hearts

that the barriers that divide us may crumble...

 and

that we may live together in love....
(The Book of Common Prayer)