"Let Our Love Be Foolish"--A Prayer for December 12, 2020

 “Let Our Love Be Foolish”—A Prayer for December 12, 2020

We get awfully hung up
on our reputations, O God.

We’re afraid of looking silly, or weak,
or—(gasp!) appearing like “losers” in someone’s eyes,
and so we are afraid to love like you.

You, the God of utterly authentic love,
you keep showing yourself in these moments
of utter recklessness and weakness,
letting others confine you upon wooden things
like mangers and crosses,
as your very means of loving us.

And somehow, you are not afraid
of showing up where
more-respectable deities
(the ones who strive to look like “winners”)
are afraid to be found.

So teach us your ways, O God,
and let our love be as foolish as yours.