Creator of all things, who stepped into the very world you fashioned, soften our hearts that we might accept you and all that you bring, receiving both the difficult and the soothing, trusting that all you offer is for our good, through you who lives and reigns with the Father and Holy Spirit in glory forever. Amen.
‘He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.’ – John 1:10-11