Jesus -
You invite us to listen to Your parables - stories filled with challenging words and depths of meaning that we need to return to again and again as we discern how to produce the fruit of Your reign.
Forgive us when we seize, beat, kill, and stone those working Your harvest.
Help us remember our role in seizing You…throwing You out of the vineyard…and killing You - God’s son.
Forgive us for rejecting Your stone - the cornerstone that breaks us open to Your transforming love as it crushes our unhealthy ways of tending Your vineyard.
Help us hear Your parables and recognize ourselves, so we may seek forgiveness and (re)join Your doing - a doing that amazes our eyes.
For You are indeed a prophet whose prophetic word stirs our hearts.
In the name of the One who plants us and entrusts us to holy work, we pray.
Amen.