Bring More of What I Dream
O God,
who out of nothing
brought everything that is,
out of what I am
bring more of what I dream
but haven’t dared;
direct my power and passion
to creating life
where there is death,
to putting flesh of action
on bare boned intentions,
to lighting fires
against the midnight of indifference,
to throwing bridges of care
across canyons of loneliness;
so I can look on creation,
together with you,
and, behold,
call it very good;
through Jesus Christ my Lord.
Ted Loder
From Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle by Ted Loder. The Rev. Dr. Theodore W. Loder is a retired Methodist minister who served for almost thirty-eight years as Senior Minister of one of Philadelphia's most unusual churches The First United Methodist Church in Germantown. . He is known for his artistic political activism and passion for social justice.