Ephesians 3:14-21
I pray that you would feel how deep the Chosen One’s great love is. It is a love that goes beyond our small and weak ways of thinking. This love fills us with the Great Spirit, the one who fills all things. I am praying to the Maker of Life who, by his great power working in us, can do far more than what we ask for, more than our small minds can imagine.
“All the authority of the spirit-world above and the earth below has been given to me,” he told them. “So now I am sending you into all nations to teach them how to walk the road with me. You will represent me as you perform the purification ceremony (baptism), with them, initiating them into the life of beauty and harmony represented in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You will then teach them all the ways that I have instructed you to walk in.”
Creator Sets Free (Jesus) then looked into their faces with love and great affection. He lifted his hands toward them and spoke these final blessing words over them.
“Never forget,” he said as he began to rise up into the spirit-world above. “I will always be with you, your invisible guide, walking beside you, until the new age has fully come.”
God forgive us for our arrogance wherever we confuse our embedded racism with “what is best”.
Watch over the children who have been removed from the homes and families they were born into.
Bring your healing to family systems that have been subject to generations of trauma and violence.
Bring your justice to the systems of violence that have been called systems of care.
Teach us all to love in ways that are self-giving rather than self-justifying.
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