Chapter Twenty-Three: One Pure Moment ~ Michael Frost
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: ONE PURE MOMENT
Loving Father,
to you who created all things and who loves all creatures,
we ask that you might fill our hearts with gratitude for lollipops and little children and beaming smiles and playfulness and hope and healing and every good blessing you bestow upon us;
Humble Son,
to you who said, “unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven,”
we ask for the innocence and naivete of a child to see the world as you see it, and the poor and the hungry as you see them;
Powerful Spirit,
to you who strengthens our resolve,
we ask for greater courage to defy convention, to share our blessings, to smile at strangers, and to bring joy and flavour and colour and grace into the lives of others and to allow them to do the same to us.
Amen.
Michael Frost is the author of several best-selling books, and one of Australia’s most widely recognized contemporary theological speakers in his own country and around the world, having spoken at some of the largest conventions and events throughout Australia, North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Michael is the Founding Director of the Centre for Evangelism & Global Mission at Morling Theological College in Sydney, and is strongly committed to leadership development, serving on the board of the Australian Arrow Leadership Development Program and as co-director in the establishment of “Forge” – a missional training network for young leaders based in Melbourne. Michael has also planted a missional church on Sydney’s northern beaches called “Small Boat, Big Sea.”