Teacher -
May Your teachings be our lives’ salt - seasoning us with goodness - and may these teachings never lose their flavor.
Salt us with a fire that awakens us - that moves us toward life and toward Your kingdom. When this salt loses its flavor and when the fire is never quenched, we become numb to Your presence - a numbing that throws us into hell.
Remove our stumbling blocks that keep us from life and keep us from being at peace with one another. Remind us that perfect followings and perfect bodies do not equal life.
As we cut off the pieces of ourselves that invite death rather than life, may we trust the transforming fire into which we throw those pieces.
Amen.