Teach me to kneel in spirit before all whom it is my privilege to serve,

   because they are your children:

 to look for the family likeness, however homely or unspiritual

   the appearance of those to whom I am sent;

   however lowly my sphere of service and their need may be.

I will be grateful for everything you give me to do …

   willing to use very simple things as the instruments of love –

      the towel and basin,

      the cup and plate and loaf,

   willing to do the most menial duties for the sake of love.

Come Lord! Come with me:

   see with my eyes: hear with my ears: think with my mind:

   love with my heart – in all the situations of my life.

Work with my hands: my strength.

Take, cleanse, possess, inhabit,

   my will, my understanding, my love.

Take me where you will, to do what you will, in your way.

For where you are, there would your servant be.

Evelyn Underhill, 1875 – 1941, English author and mystic

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Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’