Lord Jesus, You pulled up a chair to the table of this earth and drank the whole cup of human suffering and hurt. We ask you to fill the cups of our lives to overflow with you. Make us chalices of your compassion. Where the world overflows with hatred, let us hold hope. Where there is sorrow, let us savor the sacredness of every tear-stained face. Where there is doubt, let us spill over with grace. For it is in emptying the cup of our prejudice that we become filled; it is in swallowing the wine of sorrow that we are surprised by grace; it is in drinking the dregs of doubt that we digest a
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