Collect for April 18, 2010

Dear God, your steadfast love has been sung by people for ages.  Your love is what we see in our best moments.  Your love is what we explore in metaphors of life eternal, creation stories, deep sacrifice, and the observation in the creed that you so loved the world that you gave your only begotten son that all who believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life.  Bind me today to a love that strong!  Let it free me from my smallness of heart.  Let the love I feel for people, for this wonderful earth, and for you expand like a rising wind in March, so that I love more deeply and widely.  …so that my life is changed today!   Amen.