Lord God of all creation, in whom we live and move and have our being, let us not remember you only in ritual and religion, but incline our hearts to fulfill your will in the everyday and the ordinary things of life, that as you are present with us always, so might we be present with you, through Jesus Christ, your son our Lord, who intercedes for us day and night before your throne in the Holy Spirit. Amen.
“With what shall I come before the LORD and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” – Micah 6:6-7