WE ARE YOUR PEOPLE

We are your people,
Spirit of grace,
       you dare to make us
       to all our neighbors
Christ's living voice, hands and face.

Joined in community,
treasured and fed,
       may we discover
       gifts in each other,
willing to lead and be led.

Rich in diversity,
help us to live
       closer than neighbors,
       open to strangers,
able to clash and forgive.

Glad of tradition,
help us to see
       in all life's changing
       where you are leading,
where our best efforts should be.

Give, as we venture
justice and care
       (peaceful, resisting,
       waiting or risking)
wisdom to know when and where.

Spirit, unite us;
make us, by grace,
       willing and ready,
       Christ's living body,
loving the whole human race.