O ServantJesus, leadership is lonely. When you looked over your shoulder after that night of agony in the garden, those whom you had called, fed, performed miracles for, and explained the scriptures, had all scattered, leaving you alone. It was only your deep sense of mission, and your abiding faith in your Father’s love that kept you going. Give me today O God, a portion of that faith, and a double portion of that sense of mission that I may persevere to the end, that I may complete the race and claim the prize you set aside for your struggling disciple.