present among us today. Come bless our In- Service Training with unity, hope and vision. We pray for unity. Build in us all a deep respect for one another. We pray for hope. Come stir your hope within our hearts and renew our faith. We pray for vision. May your vision fill our lives as we seek to reveal your love. Deepen our understanding, and give us a greater knowledge of what You are doing in our life. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Gospel Reading Matthew 11: 25-27 25 At that time Jesus exclaimed, 'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. 27 Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Brief Silence Concluding Prayer Loving God, we seek your wisdom, so we can walkI in the path you lay before us, knowing right from wrong, protecting against temptation and deceit. Fill us with your knowledge, so we may walk in the straight and narrow path, in faithfulness to follow you. Amen.