My prayer for the Church

Our staff read the fol­low­ing the other day in a book we are study­ing together.  It is part of a Fran­cis­can bene­dic­tion.  The prayer is one that ask’s God to wreck you in a good way.  To dis­quiet your soul in such a way that are starv­ing for more of Him.  To give you a Holy pas­sion for a cause, and finally for the fool­ish­ness to believe the impos­si­ble is pos­si­ble through God.

May God bless you with dis­com­fort at easy answers, half truths, and super­fi­cial rela­tion­ships, so that yo may live deep within your heart

May God bless you with anger at injus­tice, oppres­sion, and the exploita­tion of peo­ple, so that you may work for jus­tice,  free­dom, and peace.

May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suf­fer from pain, rejec­tion, and star­va­tion, so that you may reach out your nad to com­fort them and to turn their pain into joy

And may God bless you with enough fool­ish­ness to believe that you can make a dif­fer­ence in this world, so that you can do what oth­ers claim is impossible.

Amen

This is a dan­ger­ous prayer.  This sort of prayer is a cat­a­lyst toward some­thing much big­ger than your­self, that will push you well out­side your com­fort zone, and into a place where God com­pletely fills the hori­zon, and every moment because you are com­pletely depen­dent on Him; And you are see­ing Him do amaz­ing things in, through, and around you.