DEAR LORD

Lord, you are the truth. When I keep myself rooted in you I will live in the truth. Help me, Lord, to live a truthful life, a life in which I am not guided by popularity, public opinion, current fashion, or convenient formulation, but by the knowledge that comes from knowing you.There maybe times during which holding onto the truth is hard and painful, and leads to oppression, persecution, and death. Be with me, Lord, if that time ever comes. Let me then experience that to hold onto the truth means to hold onto you, that love and truth can never be separated, and that to live truthfully is the same as being faithful to a loving relationship. Lord bring me closer to you. You are my teacher, always teaching me out of love... AMEN