After a challenging week of thinking about money and what it means to follow Jesus financially, it’s a good day for a simple prayer/poem.

Sit with these words and let the Spirit stir in you what needs to be stirred.

God

Keep my anger from becoming meanness.

Keep my sorrow from collapsing into self-pity.

Keep my heart soft enough to keep breaking.

Keep my anger turned towards justice, not cruelty.

Remind me that all of this, every bit of it, is for love.

Keep me fiercely kind.

-Laura Jean Truman