Today it's just a prayer. Recognizing how hapless, hopelessly flawed, imperfect, yet creative and gifted we all are...light and heavy all at the same time.
Dear Holy One,
Hear me even when I don't deserve to be listened to. Thank you for giving when all I can do is receive. Thank you for loving me when I least deserve it. For teaching me that love is not earned. It is given freely, by choice, and that when we least expect, deserve, provide love...it is given to us in so many unexpected ways in unexpected places, through the most unexpected people (your creation).
Help...help me to understand others even when I feel misunderstood. Help me to create, when I feel destroyed. Help me to lift up, when I feel beaten down. Help me to know what others need, when I scarcely know what my own heart needs to hear. Let me love when I am lost. Let me love when I need to be loved...because through the loving is also the being loved.
Protect us...protect me from my own mouth and ego. Protect your people from the hurts of your people...we inflict so much on each other. We are all so loved, yet in so much pain. Protect us from the recognition that we are unworthy...But, we are not...because you created all. You chose us. Protect us from feeling left behind, ignored, and less than.
Amen
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