God -
You routinely go out into the world, see us in our idleness, and invite us into Your work - work that bears the burdens of each day.
You also go into the vineyard.
We enter this work earlier or later than others, yet You choose to give to the last the same as You give to the first.
For You are generous.
Forgive us when we grumble against You because we envy the generosity You give to others.
Help us recognize that we all belong to You, and instill in us Jesus’ radically equalizing Spirit that upturns our social hierarchies.
So the last will be first, and the first will be last.
Amen.