living water

One:    You are the Source of all Life, O God, offering yourself to us beyond our imagination.

All:     Yet so often what comes streaming out of our own hearts is not grace, but gossip; not compassion, but comparison; not peace, but passive-aggression; not hope, but hurt.

~silence~

One:    You are the Source of all Life, O God.

All:      Forgive us for turning to other sources, gorging ourselves with that which does not satisfy. Fill us once again with faith, hope, and love, and connect us to you so that we may be springs of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, generosity, and self-control. We ask in the name of Jesus the Christ, who quenches thirst with living water. Amen.

Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, the Presbyterian Church of Palatine, IL