<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">Collect for Proper 22:</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">Let us pray:</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">One God,</p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">what you have coupled together </p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">we are not to separate.</p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">You have joined race with race, </p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">nation with nation,</p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">people with people, </p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">people with nature.</p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">Yet we separate by prejudice, war and pollution.</p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">Bring us together once again</p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">as you visioned in your original blessing.</p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord, </p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, </p><div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.14in;line-height:115%;">one God for ever and ever. Amen</p><div><br /></div><div>For reflection on Proper 22 go to > </div><p><font size="2"></font><a href="http://preachingtip.com/preaching-tip-of-the-week/"><font size="2">http://preachingtip.com/preaching-tip-of-the-week/</font></a></p><div><br /></div><div>Bob Eldan</div><div>Lander, Wyoming</div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></body></html>