Little Miseries

I did it again Lord!

I woke up

with a mind full of 

little miseries

little  worries

there they were

nibbling 

and gnawing at my mind

and then

ah, then Lord

I started to think of others

of friends with Cancer

of an old friend

recently dead

of parents with dead children

of 

so much pain and misery

and my heart cried

not for my little miseries

but for the deep profound darkness

for the despair created by

a creation we have neglected

 

an anguish

our greed has feed

 

a woundedness

legislated into our world by

"rulers and principalities"

who are drunk on power and ideology

(yes Texas and North Carolina, and Kansas...  this is for you)

 

O Lord

may your love

and grace

and peace

and compassion

and kindness

flow from us, your people

as we move past our little miseries

to embrace

 

the hungry

the poor

the weak

the hurting

the downtrodden

 

 In

Your

name

 

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Isaiah 42:5-7
5 This is what God the LORD says-he who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it: 6 "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, 7 to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.