CHRISTOPHER PRAYER: Father, grant that I may be a bearer of Christ Jesus, Your Son. Allow me to warm the often cold impersonal scene of modern life with Your burning love. Strengthen me, by your Holy Spirit, to carry out my mission of changing the world or some definite part of it, for the better. Make me more energetic in setting to right what I find wrong with the world instead of complaining about it or myself. Nourish in me a practical desire to build up rather than to tear down, to reconcile more than polarize, to go out on a limb rather than crave security. Never let me forget that it is far better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. And to join my light, one day, with Yours. AMEN