Jesus -
When your name becomes known, we join the voices of those wondering who you are and how the powers that work in you come to be.
We experience a complex relationship with truth and those who proclaim it. We protect it. We hear it and are greatly perplexed. We like to listen to it but remain unsure of it.
We encounter opportunities to choose truth and those who proclaim it. We feel deeply grieved by our options as truth and self-protective power come into play.
Forgive us when we behead the truth and the truth-tellers. When opportunities come, may we choose life. When death appears, may we come and graciously tend to those wounds.
In the name of Truth, we pray.
Amen.