Stanley Hauerwas - Your Saints are a Funny Lot

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Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word."  We are tempted to will our way to humility because we just do not trust you with creation.  Someone has to make this world come out right.  Thank you for surrounding us with your saints, whose lives remind us what your work looks like.  Your saints are such a funny lot - weird and wonderful.  They often make us laugh, Sarah - like, and through laughter we discover humility.  God, it is wonderful to be made part of your entertainment so that the world might be freed from sin. Amen. -- Stanley Hauerwas in Prayers Plainly Spoken