• Eternal God, lead me now out of the familiar setting of my doubts and fears, beyond my pride and my need to be secure into a strange and graceful ease with my true proportions and with yours; that in boundless silence I may grow strong enough to endure and flexible enough to share your grace.

    Ted Loder: Eternal God, 
 lead me now 
 out of the familiar setting 
 of my doubts and fears, 
 beyond my pride 
 and my need to be secure 
 into a strange and graceful ease 
 with my true proportions 
 and with yours; 
 that in boundless silence 
 I may grow 
 strong enough to endure 
 and flexible enough to share 
 your grace.
    Ted Loder “Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle”, Augsburg Books