Lord –
You knew us before You formed us and consecrated us before we were born.
May we remember Your appointment of our lives when self-doubt enters – “I do not know how to…for I am only a…”
May we hear Your reassuring truth – “You shall go to all to whom I send…Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you…”
Touch our mouths and place Your words in them, Lord. May we speak these words, and may these words fill us with hope during life’s plucking and pulling, destroying and overthrowing, building and planting.
Amen.