Wonderful, colorful God -

  with you today we rejoice in the color purple,

  and in Lydia, who fashioned purple garments

    (and in fact I'm wearing one of her creations today)

  and who opened her heart and her home to Paul and the others.

As we also rejoice day by day in all the colors of the rainbow

  may Lydia encourage us to open our hearts and our lives to those around us,

    and especially to those who are among us as strangers

    in whatever way we understand that,

as we all come to the City where the Lamb is the Light

and taste of the Tree and the River of Life,

and find ourselves at home and at peace in the City of God.