God of mercy, God of grace show the brightness of your face to us as we enter this new day. Help us to see your face O God in each other, especially in those among us we find difficult to love, on whom we find it easier to pass judgement and exclude. Help us to see our faces in the faces of the oppressed and our hands in those of the oppressor, to accept that their pain is our pain, their flesh is our flesh, and their smile is our smile; that all of us were made from the same dust and loved equally by You. May we accept today O God, that no one is beyond redemption and no one is beyond your love.