“It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart, for all of you share in God’s grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 1: 7-8. Pray the prayer of our hands compassionately: God of my friend and God of my enemy, you have called me to love my enemy and pray for those who persecute me. Bring to mind the name of one I have treated as "other". Let me see Jesus in them as they might see Jesus in me. Open my heart to the path of love and reconciliation, I pray, Amen.