A prayer for the fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

God

We are in a hospital. We want to be healed.

We would almost be willing to dip ourselves in a dirty river if you would guarantee that we would be healed.

We confess.
We confess that we’d rather have one big miracle and be done than have tiny steps of obedience.
We confess that we prefer to reap what someone else has sowed than to spend all that time ourselves.
We confess that we are tempted to judge more than we are committed to love.
We find it harder to forgive than to condemn.
We fi...