Prayer :)

(this is beautiful! i feel like it puts into words a lot of my own thoughts. thanks to whoever posted this)

 I pray that, when you go to sleep at night, the first thing you will pray about is the poor, the oppressed, the ignored, the maligned, the forgotten and the outcasts.
I pray that you see the world as bigger than yourself or individuals. I pray  God will reveal to you the structure of society that oppresses various groups everyday.
I pray that he will move your heart to change it - not just change individuals, not just lead them to Christ, but to care for what society at large does to individuals and groups every day - to care for what Christ stood against.   

I pray you won’t confuse “love” with passivity - as most of Christianity does.
I pray that you will see the hurt in the world (economic hurt, social hurt, the pain of oppression and marginalization) and you will respond from your heart.

I pray that instead you will see in Jesus the radical man he was - the man who challenged religious leaders, the man who turned over tables in the temple, the man who cared for the prostitute and the man who spoke to a woman at the well who was considered an outsider by society at large.   

I pray that you will be that radical. THOSE are the things that matter. THOSE are the beautiful moments in life. They don’t usually happen in the church walls, though the church is important, the beautiful things happen outside those four walls and it is the beautiful things like those that make you feel alive.