Fill Our Hearts With Love

God of all peoples and races, as we celebrate the birthday of the great civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, we are aware that there is still much that needs to be done before all people in our nation love and respect one another.  You came into the world to teach us how to love one another, help us to be worthy students of your teachings.  You even died on the cross to save us from our own sin and that of others, forgive us if we have not taken that sacrifice seriously enough so as to  become proponents of peace to all .  Conform our wills to your Will and fill our hearts with your love which includes all your children, everywhere.  Take our lips and speak your truth through them; take our lives and use them to spread love and brotherhood!  May we thus become vessels of your grace, witnessing to our neighbors, your truth and glory.  Amen.