"I would see you as my friend, / That I may remember you are a part of me / And come to know myself." -Course in Miracles

Prayer of the Person

The person across from you is the greatest miracle and the greatest mystery in this moment—a testament of God’s continuing creation and presence in the world.

The person across from you is an inexhaustible reservoir of possibility, with potentialities only partially realized.

The person across from you is a unique universe of experience—of possibility and necessity, laughter and tears, love and indifference, hopes and fears—all struggling for expression.

The person across from you believes in something—something precious; stands for something, lives for something, labors for something, waits for something, runs for something, runs towards something.

The person across from you is not perfect—often feels disappointed, is often undecided and disorganized and woefully close to chaos; but is endowed with a tremendous inner strength, and is capable of surviving great difficulties and persecutions.

The person across from you is a community of persons—persons met during a lifetime.  Each carries with them a mother and a father, student and teacher, brother and sister, enemy and friend.

The person across from you does some things like no one else in the world.  There is something this one life on earth means and cares for –will that person dare speak it of you?

The person across from you is more description than explanation. The person across from you is MYSTERY made in God’s image, never to be fully understood.

Look before you, and within you—look around—for God is indeed among us!

~Anonymous (most likely written by a Sister of St. Joseph)

Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel

Watercolor by ~liz