A prayer for the twenty-fourth Sunday in ordinary time

God,

We are wanting to be looked for.

Instead of thinking we have to find you,
thinking we have to be earnestly seeking you,
we wish that you were actually looking for us.

That you wanted us.

Or instead of thinking you are searching for us with the malicious intensity of a predator, trying to take us down, we wish you were seeking us with the tenderness of a parent.

Forgetting, of course, that the stories you tell us about yourself have that tenderness.

You created the relatio...