A prayer for poets, writers, and those who employ language in their work

Heavenly Father, we acknowledge you as the truest source of life and of love and of liberty, and through your Son this is fully realized by us who by nature are mortal and self-focused and diminished; and so, humbly we ask you to drive our affections toward your love, to hate only what is evil and to hold longingly to what is good. Help us to be attentive to the world immediately around us; quiet our hearts and enliven us with your Spirit to be an image of you to all that is our neighbor. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.