O God of peoples, nations and history; you who
became incarnate in the midst of economic, social
and political injustice; you who call us to incarnate
the reality of your kingdom in the midst of the
world’s destructive value’s, structures and dynamics:
we confess that we would much rather limit our
relationship with you tho the comfortable confines
of our own insulated world. We are prone to
withdraw and to create islands of security within
which we can live in some degree of peace and
comfort without having to see the pain and anguish
of the world outside. We are tempted to limit our
spirituality to the narrow boundaries of our self-
circumscribed world. O God of justice and mercy,
help us to see that to be conformed to the image of
Christ is to be thrust out into the world as agents of
your redeeming, healing, liberating, transforming
grace. Help us to see that our growth toward
wholeness in Christ cannot move toward its fruition
apart from our life in the world.
Amen
Mulholland, Invitation to a journey, IVP: Downers Grove, 1993.
