We who desire healing for ourselves and for our world, who long for a future to break through the shell of inevitability that surrounds and constrains our lives, we who witness first-hand and on the TV news the hard relentless truth that power and death collude to make a world of fear and despair--we give thanks for the wounded intruder who breathes peace into fear-full rooms, who breaks bread like that in houses of worship and hospitality, who speaks our name in love.