Spirit of life and love

Spirit of life and love, thank you for the gifts of life and love.

Help us to embrace fully the sweet and the bitter moments of our days.

Help us to treasure the times of abundance and to find meaning in the times of emptiness.

Help us in our abundance to reach out to those who hunger—

and help us in our times of hunger to admit our neediness and to accept the caring hand of our neighbor.

Amen.