A prayer for the seventh Sunday of Easter

God-

We want someone to say, “Come.” To invite us in as if we are expected and wanted and welcome.

After a long journey, after a hard night’s work, after a fight, after a big, complicated celebration, we want to be welcomed.

We are thirsty from the desert of surgery and chemo, the desert of abandonment and rejection, the desert of struggle and meaninglessness, and we want a sip of life.

We want to be known.

We confess.

We confess that we know you tell us that we are loved bu...