May this prayer - meditation based on 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 help us as ordinary, weak, vulnerable  people to be more Christ-like this week.

Your word says “Love is patient.”
God, how can I be patient when I experience injustice?
 Teach me to patient without being silent or inactive.

Your word says “Love is kind.”
God, how can I be kind as I confront what is evil?”
 Teach me to love my enemy.

Your word says “Love is not jealous.”
God, how can I not be jealous
of those who have so much wealth or power or control?
 Teach me to keep my values straight.

Your word says “Love is not arrogant.”
God, how can I not be arrogant when I am speaking truth
to those who seem so wrong?
Teach me to know how to both speak and listen.

Your word says “Love is not inflated.”
God, how can I not be inflated with righteousness in the cause of justice?
Teach me to know my limits, that I make mistakes
and that I don’t always see clearly.

Your word says “Love is not rude.”
God, how can I be gracious but also committed to what is right?
Teach me to respect all my sisters and brothers.

Your word says “Love does not seek its own interests.”
God, how can I move beyond my own limits and desires and needs?
Teach me to understand the needs and perspectives of others, especially the poor.

Your word says “Love is not quick-tempered.”
God, how can I learn from my anger?
Teach me to learn from my strongest emotions.

Your word says “Love does not brood over injury.”
God, how can I not get discouraged by all the hurts and injuries in our world?
Teach me to move forward and get into action for what is right.

Your word says “Love does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.”
God, how can I stop thinking of what helps my side to win
and the other side to lose?
Teach me to practice a love that wants the truth to win for all people.

Your word says “Love bears all things.”
God, how can I bear the stress of trying so hard to do what is right?
Teach me to let go and to trust in your wisdom.

Your word says “Love believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.”
God, how can I possibly love?
Teach me that I don’t love alone,
But rather in community with you and with all my sisters and brothers.

Your word says “Love never fails.”
God, how is it that I sometimes feel failure? How can I believe?
Teach me to love with a heart as big as the world
And to receive love and help with a big a heart.
Amen.

                           Adapted from a meditation on the following website: http://www.thisischurch.com/prayer/shortprayers.htm