Thursday, February 07, 2008

Light

O God of ferocious tenderness and disarming insistence, put Your ear to our hearts, listen to what we long for, and touch us with healing and with hope. Sometimes the darkness of doubt is upon us, doubt of our worth, our power, our possibilities, our connection with others, our kinship with You.

O God, separate once more the light from the darkness. Make light of us.

Dispel our gloomy grudges and guilty fears. Transform our self-preoccupations into a filament of trust, a radiant confidence in You.

O God, make light in us.

Make light in us to mount one small reformation of trust, and so to span some gap and tip some scale toward justice.

O God, make light through us, igniting a dawn of reunion, a wave of laughter, a glow of peace, a splendor of joy, leading to a magnificent resurrection of Your Love.

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