As we begin this new day, Loving God, may we use all the many gifts you have given us. May we listen with ears ready to answer your call to serve. Allow us to speak in words that comfort and build people up. May we use our hands to care for those who are in need and need to feel your love. Give us the awareness to see when we are to respond to the world around us and the fortitude to follow through. Help us to be vulnerable enough to know when to ask for help from others. All this we ask in the name of the God who calls us all to be a part of one body filled with love for one another. Amen