{"id":4809,"date":"2020-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/prayers\/humility\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:57:46","slug":"humility","status":"publish","type":"prayers","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/prayer\/humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>God of all the earth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take us outside to your holy places. Take us out beyond our walls, out where we can see our neighbours, out past the garden with its ripe tomatoes and fat watermelons. Out where flowers bloom yellow and pink and sway in the wind. Out to the soil we came from and the place where we no longer have words for what we see but can only say how small we are.<br>There \u2013 out there \u2013 bend down. Make mud with your spit; smear it on our eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when the clay cakes and cracks and we turn our faces to your vast world, may we see grace, not despair, and a harvest so plentiful it distresses us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This prayer by Jennifer Schrock is based on an outdoor worship service that took place at Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship, Goshen, Indiana, USA. 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