This morning I am praying:
- for an encircling, a drawing together
- for healing and restoration
- for roses along paths
- for some I love very deeply
- and some I know only in passing
- for conversations that must happen
- and for all the things the have gone unsaid, through fear, or through necessity
- and for courage to speak the things that are as yet unsaid but must be given voice
- for a diminishing of greed and jealousy
- for those who have been heavy on my mind and heart these last days and weeks
- while remembering "his body broken, his blood shed"
- with thankfulness for a friend with whom I spent last evening, laughing, talking, eating, communing
- for a tearing down of idols (idol worship is about self harm)
- for restored dreams
- for travels that are not yet fully possibilities, but that God is calling some to
- for health and strength
- for daily bread
- for just enough light for one more step (another step deeper into darkness, closer to the light)
- for birthing
- for empty arms to be filled
- and empty hearts to be held
- while thinking about some lyrics from two Ben Harper songs (Roses from a Friend, and Blessed to be a Witness)
- for two little girls in Winnipeg who touched my heart deeply (and their family, who also entered my heart)
- for two friends recently engaged
- for the closing of the gap
- for the lonely to be set in families
- for all those who bear the marks of Christ on their lives
- for healing and wholeness
- for joy amidst suffering
- while remembering Francis and Claire and Lazarus and Rose of Lima and all the others that have impacted this year
- for peace
- and hope
- for the coming of the light.
Advent is nearly at a close. The light is coming. Amen, come Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.
1 comments:
Amen.
S.
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