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Saturdays I often volunteer at our church\u2019s soup kitchen. These days, since the pandemic, we\u2019ve been handing out a hot meal and a bag of food outside. My job is serving up cups of hot coffee. \u201cCheaper than Starbuck\u2019s,\u201d I like to tell the guests. Free, in fact!<\/p>\n

One Saturday, feeling pretty exhausted, I realized, \u201cThis is prayer, too.\u201d<\/a> I start my mornings sitting on the couch, eyes closed, opening up to the Spirit, and then reading a few psalms while I eat my oatmeal\u2026but service is prayer, too.<\/p>\n

As the letter of James in the Bible puts it, \u201cBut be doers of the word, and not merely hearers\u2026\u201d Our faith expresses itself both vertically (gazing heavenward) and horizontally (serving the coffee). Here\u2019s how I try to integrate them both in prayer,<\/a> using the Lord\u2019s Prayer as a template:<\/p>\n

Our Father who art in heaven.<\/em><\/strong> Volunteer work can be taxing. For me, it\u2019s back and forth, getting more coffee, handing out creamers and sugar, refilling the urn, fetching more cups, but it\u2019s also fatiguing empathetically. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m dealing with people who have so little, and it makes me realize how I have so much. What I have to remember, again and again, is what we have in common. As one of the guests said, gesturing to the very sidewalk, \u201cThis is a God place.\u201d<\/a> God\u2019s love sustaining us all.<\/p>\n

Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.<\/em><\/strong> Would that I were a real saint! Almost every Saturday, I grow impatient over something. How many cups of coffee have I already given you?<\/em> I ask myself about some guest or Do you really need that much sugar?<\/em> about another.<\/p>\n

How quickly I forget what a boon a free cup\u2014or a few free cups\u2014of coffee mean to them in their vulnerable and fragile living situations. I hear my unworthy thoughts and seek God\u2019s forgiveness.<\/a> For me and for them.<\/p>\n

Give us this day our daily bread<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong> I love how the words that Jesus gave us in this prayer are in the first-person plural, not singular. Not just my<\/em> daily bread but our<\/em> daily bread. <\/p>\n

At our church\u2019s Saturday Kitchen, we are giving many people their daily bread.<\/a> The number of guests has more than doubled since the pandemic. But it\u2019s not just an us-giving-to-them universe. We are getting back necessary spiritual sustenance.<\/p>\n

Thy kingdom come.<\/em><\/strong> Our guests come from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures speaking a variety of languages. One Sunday a Chinese guest\u2014with little English\u2014insisted on giving me an envelope.<\/p>\n

Inside was a brochure about a sainted Chinese man I\u2019d never heard of, Ignatius Cardinal Kung Pin-Mei<\/a> (1901-2000). This Catholic bishop was a courageous witness to his faith during turbulent times, spending 32 and a half years in a Chinese prison. When finally released, he spent his last years in America.<\/p>\n

The guest was sharing with me another glimpse of God\u2019s kingdom on earth, a piece of history I knew nothing of. A prayer we silently shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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