Wonderful Words of Others: Ted Loder

Empower me

to be a bold participant,

rather than a timid saint in waiting,

in the difficult ordinariness of now,

to exercise the authority of honesty;

rather than to defer to power,

or deceive to get it;

to influence someone for justice,

rather than impress anyone for gain

and, by grace, to find treasures

of joy,

of friendship,

of peace,

hidden in the fields of the daily

you give me to plow.