Open a bible to Luke 6 and light a candle beside it.
LEADER: Wise and loving God, your words, like seeds, fall into our lives and send out roots to sprout, flower, and flourish in abundant fruit.
ALL: May your words bear fruit in us.
LEADER: Let us listen to proverbs by which each of us live.
Group members take turns saying a proverb.
LEADER: These are our ways, O Wisdom. We come to examine their fruit.
ALL: Wise and loving God, teach us your ways.