O Trinity of Love,
Form in us a passion
For your joining grace
For your grand vision
Of loving interdependence
Flowing all around us.
Gift us with a deep desire
To behold each other
As you behold us
Savouring your marvellous
Diversity and complexity
Necessary for the nuances
Revealed in your tapestry of grace.
Let no momentary tension
Distract us from you
And your ongoing creation
Of a joy unimaginable.
Let us not worship
The freedom you give
In isolation from each other.
Grant us instead a new resolve
To love you whole-heartedly
By loving each other
In ways that bridge
The divides easily distracting us
From our deepest calling.
Drain us of ego’s insistence
And clear our hearts and minds
For your great work
Of bearing mending mercy
To each other at every turn.
By your grand grace
Form the heart and mind
Of Christ in us for a good
That blesses and heals
In gratitude for your motion
Of love already at work in us.
Yes, grant us grace and strength
To consent to your will and way
Of self-giving love that binds us
To you and to each other
Through your remarkable gift
Of life-giving interdependence.
Photo by David Long-Higgins.
Wording has been slightly adapted to ease reading aloud.
