Open The Dimensions of our Calling

O God, open the dimensions of our callng as Christians.  Make us bold to venture with your Spirit as we speak and work.  Empower us to live at peace with all people.  Endue us with a longsuffering spirit, and through it bestow some quick insight of faith to all who watch us.  Through gentleness make us able to enlist the interest and affection of the young.  Form within us the spirit of meekness so that through patient waiting, evil moods may flee.  May we commend the gospel unto others because of our exceeding joy in our Lord Jesus Christ.  It's in his Name that we pray.  Amen.