The seed of Your kingdom is forever being sown
into our lives, our world, O God.
But it doesn’t always take root.
Sometimes it fails to find a place to grow.
And so we pray…
For ourselves and others when life makes us hard and resistant
like a well-trodden path
where old habits, old systems and old patterns of thinking
keep your message from growing;
For ourselves and others when we become so immersed
in the short-lived, shallow, rock-hiding soil of the moment
where Your life too easily gets blown away by the wind;
For ourselves and others when our fears, insecurities,
desires and self-absorption
tangle like thorns around Your grace
and choke it into silence;
For ourselves and others when Your truth brings out the best in us
and we grow fruitful in compassion and justice
in service and worship.
The seed of Your kingdom is forever being sown
into our lives and our world, O God;
May it find good soil, may it grow
and may it produce a harvest of life, peace, joy and love
in us and across the globe.
Amen.
