Ruth T. West is on the staff of San Francisco Theological Seminary, so this prayer must have come to me through an email from them. Photograph was taken in San Leandro, August 2020. One of these days I am going to surprise you all with some exotic location. For now, I will simply pause and give thanks right where I am. What else can we do? Here is where we meet the Sacred.
Dear Holy One,
As time flashes past so quickly before us, bless us with the gifts of pause and memory –
So that we might re-encounter your steadfast love for us again.
Allow us to be brave enough to correct wrongs that still lay on our hearts –
So that our empathy can flow more freely.
Give us the capacity and humility to make new strides towards reconciliation –
So that our boundaries of care and imagination might expand.
Let our souls be filled with joy and forgiveness. May we be generous with time by holding spaces for others to be heard.
Ease our pains of rejection and abandonment while showering us with your love and grace, even as we carry our whole and authentic selves forward into each day and new circumstance.
Highlight what makes us special, important and beloved and then give us the courage to believe it –
So that we lead by example for others to do the same.
With hopeful hearts we pray,
Amen
Rev. Ruth T. West
As time flashes past so quickly before us, bless us with the gifts of pause and memory –
So that we might re-encounter your steadfast love for us again.
Allow us to be brave enough to correct wrongs that still lay on our hearts –
So that our empathy can flow more freely.
Give us the capacity and humility to make new strides towards reconciliation –
So that our boundaries of care and imagination might expand.
Let our souls be filled with joy and forgiveness. May we be generous with time by holding spaces for others to be heard.
Ease our pains of rejection and abandonment while showering us with your love and grace, even as we carry our whole and authentic selves forward into each day and new circumstance.
Highlight what makes us special, important and beloved and then give us the courage to believe it –
So that we lead by example for others to do the same.
With hopeful hearts we pray,
Amen
Rev. Ruth T. West
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