A Prayer for Reading

Creator God, by your eloquent Word you made all things that are. You articulated and suffused them with truth, beauty, and goodness. Then when we, in unutterable perversity, had stopped our hearts and minds to your light and love – that we no longer knew, no longer cared for you, for the world, nor even ourselves – by your passionate Word you erased our sin and authored new life for us and for all creation. Therefore inscribe me, savior God, lost and wayward as I am, into your graceful story, your Word incarnate; and thus in all the pages of this life, let me learn to read well that I may love well. This I pray, in Jesus’ name.