Wednesday, February 15, 2012

How precious we are to you...

How precious we are to you...


Oh Lord help us to feel you;
 help us to know how precious we are to you,

 That we might become at least half so precious to ourselves.
 Move within us, according to your desire,
 Ease our hearts, melt our harsh edges
 So that we might sense how intimate you truly are.
 Guide us, God, in an ever more complete embrace of you,
 that we might bear more of your endless embrace of us,
 and thereby embrace ourselves.
 Keep alive within us, Oh Christ, your most precious gift to us
 Which is our burning, longing, wordless yearning for you.
 Grant to us the courage and the vulnerability and the dignity
 to claim our hunger for you in every moment, celebrating
 in each instant the pain and delight of our longing.

 Touch us beneath our will, opening us where we cannot
 open ourselves. Healing us where we cannot heal ourselves.
 And, in the vibrant mystery of your Spirit within us
 accept our eternal gratitude for every act of goodness that
 comes to us from another or through us for another, for every
 nourishing way that souls may touch each other,
 For every bit of love we share, and for the wonder,
 The tender laughing touching calling beautiful wonder.

A prayer by Gerald May

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