Storytelling God, thank you
for narratives that open worlds to us and open the stories we tell ourselves
like a mirror reflecting back who we are.
We all long for a full life in this beautiful and broken world. We all long to live in the eternal now
of this moment, but sometimes the heart break and soul ache pushes us into the
ditch where we cannot help ourselves. We
have moments when our bootstraps that we are supposed to pull on have snapped
or we don’t even have boots in the first place.
We all have moments when we have stood silently as spectators on the
sidelines because there is so much that clamors for our attention and energy
and says we are not doing enough. Help
us, God, because on the journey of life there are so many pains and people we
encounter that we don’t always know what to do or how to help. And help us, O God, realize that we are also
the ones who need healing and help, which is a narrative most of
us prefer to distance and disconnect ourselves from telling. God of loving kindness that poured into the
cup called, “life”, meet us this day in our life. God of healing meet us in our woundedness. God of people who help and those who pass by
for reasons we may never know help open us from glaring to gazing. God of messy stories that don’t just have one
moral fairy tale message that we can put in our pocket and apply to our
lives. Thank you, O God, for words of
wisdom that we need now more than ever.
Let the parable of our humanness and helpfulness and brokenness continue
to speak and sing to the script of our life this day and this season of
Lent. Amen.
Fun trivia fact from the Salt
Project: February 16 is also the day in 600 that Pope Gregory, the story
goes, recommended “God bless you” as the appropriate response to a sneeze. The
plague was at its height in Europe, and the idea was that the blessing would
help protect the sneezing person from sickness and death. As the plague spread,
so did the custom. May your life be a
blessing as you sense God’s presence blessing and overflowing your cup today.
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