Friday’s Reflection
GOD OF ALL PEOPLE, thank you for reminding me that running a close second to my love for you is my love for others. You have commanded me to love my neighbor as I love myself. That is not difficult to understand, because I so easily see how many ways I love myself and look after my personal welfare.
Give me your grace today to extend this kind of love to others: to the people I know and those I do not know. Especially, give me grace to love ( ).
Make me as likely to love the stranger as I am to love my dearest friends. Enable me to love those who cross my path by surprise, as well as tho who do so through the well-made plans of my day. In doing this, I bring honor to your name. And I desire to do this more than anything else in the world. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
- Steve Harper
A Pocket Guide to Prayer
From page 41 of A Pocket Guide to Prayer by Steve Harper. Copyright © 2010 by Steve Harper. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.
Today’s Question
What ways can you show God’s love to strangers who cross your path “by surprise” during the day? Share your reflections.
Today’s Scripture Reading
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