Almighty God,

author of my life,

help me learn to read what you have written in my heart.

Give me discerning eyes

and an untiring spirit

to look within me

in order to understand how to reach outside of me.

And once I have begun to read you aright,

give me the generosity to help others to read you,

to sound you out one letter,

one word of radical giving at a time. 

Amen.