As we consider the people whose paths we will cross this very day, we pray that God would empower us to live out the mystery of "Christ in us," to be empowered to love as Christ loved, to give ourselves as Christ gave himself, out of the fullness that we have received from God. Resting in God's presence, we ask to have our hearts so transformed that we will love the person God puts before us or directs us to seek out as God would have us love that person - not as, in our flesh, we might otherwise wish to respond to him or her. In the power of the Spirit and under the Spirit's guidance, we pray that we will seek the interests of others rather than our own (Philippians 2:4) for "when a person is self-seeking he or she abandons love" (Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ 3.5).
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