27. Oktober 2019
Lord, we want to be your instruments. We have nothing to offer you but our desire to be laborers in your harvest. But since you have chosen the weak things of this world, the things that are not, will you not choose us, even us, to be your servants? We cannot, of ourselves, bring your message to humankind. Grant us, we pray, not to speak our own words, but your word by which men and women may come to know you and to love you. // Grant us courage to confess the name of Jesus Christ before the world. Help us to take to heart the situation of those around us, to act as neighbors toward them, to share with them what you have given us. We do not ask to see the fruits of our labor. We want only to know that you are using us for your saving work and that your kingdom is coming among us. Send us, Lord, as witnesses of the good news of your love revealed in Jesus Christ. Amen
Willem A. Visser ‘t Hooft, Geneva 1981