Lord,
we love you.
Expand our hearts.
Let us love our neighbors.

Make us brave enough to cleanse wounds,
to give shelter when it is needed,
to help pay the bills and
give our helping
hands.

When we love you
in our neighbor,
let us find
 you
in
ourselves.

Where can we find your commandment, O Lord?
Could it be hidden in the sky? Who will go up
 and get it there and explain it to us?
Is it across the sea? Who will
cross the sea and get it for
 us so we can ponder
it and attempt to
understand
 it?

“The 
command
that I gave you is
not remote or mysterious.
Look no farther than your heart.
My law, the law of love, is written there,
on your heart, in your mouth, in your very being.
I created you in my image. You love because I love.”

Lord,
you are as near to us as our skin
help us always find you
in our loves.

Christ: the
powers, and dominions, all things in heaven, earth,
were created through you and for you.
Yet you reached far down to us
and hollowed us out,
put within us
your own
Image.

Beyond our knowing,
but not beyond
 our love,

let us find you
in all you have crafted.