Be our primary disease

Be our primary disease,
and infect us with your justice;
Be our night visitor,
and haunt us with your peace;
Be our moth that consumes,
and eat away at our unfreedom.
Be our primary disease,
our night visitor,
our moth
infect, haunt, eat away. . .
Until we are toward you and with you and for you,
away from our injustice,
our anti-peace,
our unfreedom.
More like you and less like your resistance.
In the name of the one most like you,
most with you,
most for you. . . even Jesus.
Amen.

~~Walter Brueggemann, Prayer in Class: January 20, 1998

Brueggemann, Walter. Ed. Edwin Searcy. Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003. 99.