Prayer

Compassionate God,

You alone see clearly. Through your compassionate gaze, every person is a beloved child, created in your image and worthy of belonging.

Protect us, those we love, and the leaders entrusted with the common good from any worldview that distorts the truth of another person's God-given dignity.

Teach us humility.  Help us recognize when our vision is impaired or narrow, where our hearts have hardened, and when we mistake certainty for wisdom. 

Remind us how deeply we depend upon grace, and how often our vision remains incomplete. Help us extend grace and temper our judgments with compassion.  Guide our convictions with love and our discernment by the example and life of Jesus.

Grant us the courage to see migrants and refugees — strangers and all those who differ from us — not as problems to be solved, but as sisters and brothers to be welcomed. 

Perfect our vision with the 20/20 sight of Christ, so that we may see the world as you see it and love others as you love them.

Amen.