A Prayer about the Work of God

Jesus, Bread of Life,

As we begin this week and this new year,

Forgive us for the ways we often work for food that perishes 

and not for the food that endures to eternal life. 

Draw us, today and every day, to feast on you, 

the Bread of Life, 

by reading your Word, 

by dining fully on your mercy and grace. 

Help us to see the crumbs that lie before us—worldly success, earthly accolades— 

as just that—crumbs, crumbs that will soon leave us hungry.

Help us to believe in you, the one whom God has sent, 

and as we believe, to do the work of God (John 6:29).

In your soul-filling name. Amen. 

Read John 6:22-40.