Lord Jesus,
When the disciples heard your voice,
they left everything they had
to follow you.
Examine our hearts, Lord,
and show us those things that
we also need to abandon,
those remnants of an earthly kingdom
That have no place in the Kingdom of God:
The need to win,
The need to get our way,
Our feelings of superiority
to our brothers and sisters,
Our tendency to seek our own will,
and to call it yours.
We have muffled your voice
in the frenzied noise
Of modern life;
Lest we hear,
and, like the disciples,
be compelled to follow.
Yet in those occasional
moments of stillness,
we find that you still call.
We pray to God
that we can still hear.
Amen