Prayer for the Beginning of a Spiritual Journey
All:
Leader:
In the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
The person next to you is one of the greatest
miracles, a testament of the Word made
Flesh, of God's coming continually into the
world, into our midst.
The person next to you is an inexhaustible
reservoir of possibility, with potential that has
not yet been touched.
The person next to you is a unique universe of
experience, filled with necessity and
possibility, dread and desire, smiles and
frowns, laughter and tears, hopes and fears,
all struggling for expression.
The person next to you believes in something,
stands for something, lives for something,
waits for something, runs from something,
labors for something.
The person next to you is insecure and self-
assured, confident and afraid, is often
undecided and disorganized, and yet finds
peace in the chaos; this person is imbued
with a great toughness in the face of
adversity, able to survive difficulties and
persecutions.
The person next fo you can do some things
better than anyone else in the whole world.
There is something this one life is meant to do
or be... The person next to you can never be