Jesus prayed, “I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:20-26
Great Creator maker of all nations
we are woven from one sacred strand
a beautiful tapestry of your joy
spun together so that all may thrive.
We would pull away and be separate
reveling in our individual qualities
unaware and diminished by not seeing
our beauty enhance by those around us.
In your time on this island home
you prayed for all of us to be one
knowing our greedy shortsightedness
would pull us away from those we need.
Help us to lean in to strangers and neighbors
recognizing your marks of love in them
help us to be rewoven tightly together
so the world might know your joy and love. Amen.
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