Below is a prayer that I wrote my senior year for our Convocation ceremony. A few weeks ago, I re-read this prayer in preparation for a devotion I was to lead on our beach retreat and I realized that it is much more appropriate and applicable now, while I am living and loving and struggling in Peru, than at any other time in my life.
Almighty Creator,
As we come before you, equally flawed and imperfect, please hear our prayers and allow us some of your limitless grace.
Grant us grace enough to embrace our gifts
and grace enough to be humbled.
Grant us grace enough to feel others’ pain
and grace enough to share our own.
Grant us grace enough to be frustrated
and grace enough to learn from it.
Grant us grace enough to be happy without cause
and grace enough to weep.
Grant us grace enough to be angry with injustice
and grace enough to fight it.
Grant us grace enough to embrace others’ faults
and grace enough to accept our own.
Grant us grace enough to be lost
and grace enough to be found.
Grant us grace enough to challenge our faith
and grace enough to trust it.
Grant us grace enough to hear your voice
and grace enough to listen.
And God, grant us grace enough to see your grace in others
and grace enough to show it.
O Lord, in your Son’s name, grant us grace.
Amen.
