Father, it is Your love we seek. Fill us with Your love. We are simple and hoping. We are reaching and touching. We are unworthy. You are worthy. You are love. Teach us to love.

Teach us to love the addict

Teach us to love the broken

Teach us to love the busted

Teach us to love the depressed

Teach us to love the suicidal

Teach us to love the angry

Teach us to love the violent

Teach us to love the adulterous

Teach us to love the ones trapped in sexual dysfunction

Teach us to love the anxious

Teach us to love the fearful

Teach us to love and desire the best of all possible for all with whom we come in contact

Teach us to leave our comfort and comfort the discomforted

Teach us to embrace the diseased and discouraged

Teach us to give attention to the lonely

Teach us to take of the resources You give us and share

Teach us to laugh with the brokenhearted

Teach us to dance with the crippled in soul

Teach us to love with no reserve

You promise to be with us in every act of love and mercy

You promise to receive us as we give a cup of cold water

You ask us to visit the prison and the sick room

You ask us to receive the little ones

Teach us to love when we think we have nothing left to give

Teach us to give when love is all we have