Here’s
another hospitality prayer. This one was
written by Rev. Naomi King.
Hospitality Prayer
Beloved,
teach us to open our shuttered hearts
and
our portioned and boarded up spirits
with
bold generous and with courageous hospitality.
Estranged
and alienated so often and from so much,
sustain
us in making circles of welcome out of gatherings of strangers.
Around
the table of wonder, meet us in abundance,
drawing
out our stories
and
showing us how to weave together community with steadfast love.
The
wells of life are our responsibilities;
teach
us to care for them together,
with
forbearance, forgiveness, gratitude, and rejoicing.
When
we are cast out and wandering,
may
we find welcome and compassion
that
calls us back into accountable relationship,
into
the ways of healing, into the ways of peace.
Generation
after generation has wrested and exiled
or
been dispossessed.
Generation
after generation has learned anew
how
to make welcome,
how
to make home wherever they are, however they are,
and
how to welcome You, Beloved,
in
welcoming enemies, strangers, and exiles
into
a life of transforming love. Amen.
~
written by Rev. Naomi King, and posted on The
Wonderment. http://thewonderment.typepad.com/
