Prayer 19
Worship
Prayers for the Age of Technology
Object:
Dear Love Entity:
Some who have known you best tell us that you are love. This comforts us, for, despite our would-be sophistication and skepticism concerning traditional concepts, we like to feel that a benign, caring presence animates the universe and looks after our lives.
We are, however, having trouble with the concept of love. There is an ambiguity in it that makes us uneasy. Our definitions leave us feeling that something is lacking.
We are familiar with the kind of love that draws men and women together romantically, the kind that exists among siblings and family members, and the kind that Jesus enjoined us to have toward one another as neighbors. But is there another dimension that will help us in our complex corporate life? This is where, in our present circumstances, the need is so great that it seems to mock all other expressions of love.
Can love exist in and between corporations? In international relations? Between races and ethnic groups? In a profit-motivated capitalist society?
Evidently, we are far from the full, mature understanding of love that we need. And our failure to implement it at any level is abysmally deficient.
Capable as we are in many respects, we seem incapable of functioning effectively at this primary level of need.
Help us to learn how to love: to be mature enough to be able to love as Jesus did. Give us the courage and will to know and embrace love as it exists in you. Amen.
Some who have known you best tell us that you are love. This comforts us, for, despite our would-be sophistication and skepticism concerning traditional concepts, we like to feel that a benign, caring presence animates the universe and looks after our lives.
We are, however, having trouble with the concept of love. There is an ambiguity in it that makes us uneasy. Our definitions leave us feeling that something is lacking.
We are familiar with the kind of love that draws men and women together romantically, the kind that exists among siblings and family members, and the kind that Jesus enjoined us to have toward one another as neighbors. But is there another dimension that will help us in our complex corporate life? This is where, in our present circumstances, the need is so great that it seems to mock all other expressions of love.
Can love exist in and between corporations? In international relations? Between races and ethnic groups? In a profit-motivated capitalist society?
Evidently, we are far from the full, mature understanding of love that we need. And our failure to implement it at any level is abysmally deficient.
Capable as we are in many respects, we seem incapable of functioning effectively at this primary level of need.
Help us to learn how to love: to be mature enough to be able to love as Jesus did. Give us the courage and will to know and embrace love as it exists in you. Amen.
