Reveal through Story, by Ken Gire
Dear God,
Reveal to me through stories something of what it is like to walk around in someone else’s shoes.
Show me something about myself in the stories I read, something that needs changing, a thought, a feeling or attitude.
Deliver me from myself, O God, and from the parachial and sometimes prejudiced views I have of other people, other nations, other races, other religions.
Enlarge my heart with a story, and change me by the characters I meet there.
May some of the light from their lives spill over into mine, giving me illumination where there was once ignorance, compassion where there was once contempt.
For more see “No Storyless Prayers.”
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