This morning the pastor* prayed,
“Give us a French
[and then corrected herself]
sense of purpose,”
but in my mind, I began to wonder
just what a French sense of purpose might be.
“Give us a joie de vivre,
a savoring of every moment of our being,
“Let us cry out when we awake, ‘Bon appetite’
each morning at the table you set before us,
“Keep us bug-eyed in wonder, always with
a je ne sais quoi at the world’s indescribable beauty,
“May we try not to see each day
as a déjà vu experience, but delight in all things new,
“When things go wrong, may we be less apt to blame
than to say simply, ‘c’est la vie,’ and move on,
“Finally, keep us from the faux pas of forgetting
our Savior’s etiquette of seeing you in all people,
“That we might be your avant-garde in the world around us,
“En route to a better life for all,
“With you, who are our rock, and our raison d'être. Amen.”
Scott L. Barton
*The Rev. Susan Cartmell at Amherst, MA’s South Congregational Church
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