Our God: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
 
We are in continual awe of the mystery of your unity.  While we constantly play with analogies to grasp how three can be one, and one can be three, you live in the glorious existence of unity.  To you, our Triune God, we pray for your guidance today.
 
Though we are many, you have called us to be your one body.  You have called us to be your very hands, feet, eyes, and ears for the world.  
 
We are humbled, that of all the ways available to You to continue your redemption process, you chose us to be your holy and loving presence in the world.  
 
We thank You for the Holy Spirit that empowers us for humble service to the poor and the rich, to the weak and the strong, and to our neighbors near and far.
 
Today, we lift up our part of your mission for the world.  
 
As people who have been peculiarly called to be United Methodist, we pray that we may be as united with You and with each other as our name asserts.  
 
We pray that You will open our eyes to see your leading and enliven our feet to follow the path that You have set for us.  
 
We thank You for your continued revelation to us that has given us the four areas of focus: 
 
to combat the diseases of poverty by improving health globally, 
 
to create new places for new people and revitalizing existing congregations, 
 
to develop principled Christian leaders for the church and the world, 
 
and to engage in ministry with the poor.
 
 
Yet even more than that focus, we pray that our lives would be focused as the apostle Paul’s life was focused, as he writes in Philippians 3:10 and 11, “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.” 
 
 
We praise you Father!  We praise you Son!  We praise you Spirit!  May the unity that is your essence unite us both now and forevermore.  
 
Amen.
 
Aaron Tiger is a disciple of Jesus Christ who has been peculiarly called to The United Methodist Church in the Oklahoma Annual Conference.  He is receiving his commissioning as probationary elder this year, and he will graduate Asbury Seminary in May 2010.  Aaron and his wonderful wife Heather are expecting their first child this October.  He blogs at http://aarontiger.wordpress.com.