Prayer 12

Lord, your loyalty empowers me. You pour out your steadfast loyalty and it propagates until each of us has the unflinching loyalty of Ruth, or the focused loyalty of Rehoboam's Levites. Loyalty orients us towards eternity. Without it we wander away from every stable thing. We slip quickly into stupid delusions. We act on every meaningless impulse and pursue the impossibility of perpetual gratification.

Make your loyalty vivid, Lord, and provoke me to courage. Guard me from every capricious person. Guard me from the negligence of bridge-burners.
They all seem stable, but they are scatterbrained.
They are apples on the train tracks.
They are grapes in the dust of the desert.
(Ruth 1:16; 2 Chronicles 11:13-14; Proverbs 17:17)