“Lord, help us not to shy away from our own transgressions,

neither to hold the sins of others against them,

but to name sin with confidence that

your forgiveness has the power

to effect a just reconciliation in our world. Amen.”

— page 476, Common Prayer:

A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

It’s the first Bible verse many of us learned.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that all who believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

God still loves “the world.”

God still longs for, in the words of the prayer we’ve been living with all week, “a just reconciliation in our world.”

What part can you and I play in that?

Time to get busy.