“Go where your best prayers take you.”
― Frederick Buechner
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today my prayers will take me into grief
as I think of
communities destroyed by fire
and people
missing and dead.
My prayers will
take me into sorrow as I think of
that desperate
caravan of desperate mothers and fathers
and fragile
children
marching toward
what they hope is safety
and as I think of
little children separated from their parents
and caged
today my prayers will take me into pain
as I offer to the sacred
the agony of those afflicted by
cancer, arthritis, heart failure
all the afflictions of
the body
today my payers will take me into loneliness
as I listen to one
who is so
alone
today my prayers will take me into
anger and hate
as these dark emotions dominate
the social media
and dominate
the words of people
who have become fused
with darker things
and have become hate personified
today my prayers will take me
into fear
as I watch lives
shattered
evil flourish
and the earth
fail
It is not all
darkness, I know
This life is filled
too with beauty, with love
Even with kindness
at moments
I will be led too
into light and joy
for they too are
part of life
and I will remember
love and plentitude
And acts of
nobility and kindness
I will be led
into awe
As I look at the
mountains
And watch the sun
rise
today my prayers
will take me down many paths
rough and smooth
down into life
Oh Sacred One
Help me to go where
my prayers take me
Rejoice with me
which I am in the high places
And when I find
myself
In the dust and grime
of uncertainty and darkness
Be with me
Be with me in the grief and pain
the sorrow, anger
and fear,
to comfort
to calm
to heal
to rejoice
until I once
again
find my way to
the light
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