A prayer based on Psalms
43-45
God sometimes the
world frustrates me so much smoke billows from my ears. I see good people hurt and harmed by those
with power and I wonder, “What can I do?” I sign petitions and show up to stand in
solidary and still feel like nothing has changed. My soul gets disturbed and downcast. God meet me in the messiness of muck because
You are a God born in a barn and who faced the cross. As that contradictory sentence interrupts my
life, let me remember in You there is hope because You are not distant or disconnected
but right here in the messiness of this life.
Awaken my sacred imagination to rewind and remember when and where this
last month I felt Your love holding and enfolding me. In times of laughter, in friends whose love
means the world, in times where all of me (even that which I
would never post on social media) could show up to another person. Help me trust not in money or power, help me
trust in the truth of Your vulnerable love; even as I recognize that is not the
currency of the world I call, “home”.
When I stray from You, when I wander away seeking what my ego promises
is a prize, call back to me. Help me
find that path of joy and gladness that leads me to the “home” which is Your
presence. Let the unfinished symphony of
my life continue as I keep singing the Psalms and turn the calendar from May to
June. In the name of the One whose
presence awakens and enlivens us in these day, Jesus the Christ. Amen.
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