Fourteenth Week after Pentecost

Lord, you know me and love me,

even when I am not my best.

Sometimes I don't know myself

and cannot accept my weakness along with my strength.

Help me to take what I am --

weak, strong, loving, unloving,

sometimes filled with doubt --

and bring it into your loving presence,

that there may I find courage

to accept myself as you know me,

to use your grace

to grow into the loving person I can be. Amen.

 

Basil Arbour - St Francis Xavier University