Sunday, August 9, 2020
Waiting, Looking, Loving Time . . .
A Prayer
You keep us waiting.
You,
the God of all time,
Want
us to wait for the right time
in
which to discover
Who
we are, where we must go,
Who
will be with us, and what we must do.
So,
thank you . . . for waiting time.
You
keep us looking.
You,
the God of all space,
Want
us to look in the right and wrong places
for
signs of hope,
For
people who are hopeless,
For
visions of a better world
that
will appear among the disappointments
of
the world we know.
So,
thank you . . . for the looking time.
You
keep us loving.
You,
the God whose name is Love,
Want
us to be like you –
To
love the loveless and the unlovely and the unlovable;
To
love without jealousy or design or threat,
And
most difficult of all, to love ourselves.
So,
thank you . . . for loving time.
And
in all this you keep us,
Through
hard questions with no easy answers;
Through
falling where we hoped to succeed
and
making an impact when we felt useless;
Through
the patience and the dreams
and
the love of others;
And
through Jesus Christ and his Spirit, you keep us.
(By
Lisa Terneus of the Iona Community in Scotland)
https://iona.org.uk/
A Blessing Prayer . . .
May God bless us with
discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that
we will live deep within our hearts.
May God bless us with anger at
injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people and the earth, so that we
will work for justice, equity, and peace.
May God bless us with tears to
shed for those who suffer so we will reach out our hands to comfort them and
change their pain and sorrow into joy.
And may God bless us with the
foolishness to think that we can make a difference in the world, so we will do
the things which others say cannot be done.
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Becoming our best selves . . .
"In the thousands of moments that string together
to make up our lives,
there are some where time seems to change
its shape and a certain
light falls across our
ordinary path. We stop searching
for purpose, we become
it."
(Dawna Markova- I
Will Not Die An Unlived Life)
https://www.dawnamarkova.com/
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
I weave a silence on my lips,
I weave a silence into my mind,
I weave a silence within my heart.
I close my ears to distractions,
I close my eyes to attentions,
I close my heart to temptations.
Calm me, O God, as you stilled the storm,
Still me, O God, keep me from harm.
Let all the tumult within me cease,
Enfold me, God, in your peace.
(Author Unknown ~ Celtic Tradition)
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