The Places You've Lived that Live in You Prayer

 

God of all places, spaces, forming and fashioning people whose path crosses mine in ways that help and sometimes hurt.  For this fragile, fabulous adventure of life, thank you.  For new insights into the ways spaces and places have/continue to shape me, thank you.  For hearing afresh the ways stories of my parents still sit on the shoulder of my life, whispering in my ear, thank you.  For people, those who blessed me in beautiful ways and those who were like south stars teaching me how not to be, thank you.  For this invitation to listen to my life in all its complexity, contradictions, and cohesion as I superglue parts of my life together in the art project of each day, thank you.  Help me taste the individual parts of my life that have been brought together and blended in the mixer of my soul.  For the places I’ve lived.  For the people I’ve loved.  For the lessons I heard.  For the stories I still tell.  May all these individual ingredients find a blessing in You, O God, in these July days.  Amen.