Tag: Catholic prayer
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Storing Up
Bare feet in the October afternoon we peel apart the flowering silks of season-ending sweet corn; the scent of sugared earth floats as we tear the still-green leaves revealing rows of cobbed kernels. Snapping free the stalk and tossing aside the husk, we lay the ear by for blanching. The girls yank and pull and…
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A Prayer for Our Children
Lord, you love our children so much. Thank you for gifting me with them. They are precious in every way. Please help me understand them and lead and guide them in the best way. Let me be a blessing to them and not a burden. Open my eyes and my heart so that I may…
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Writer’s Prayer
Lord, you know my heart before I do, for in you it has been created. You know my joy and desire, my sadness and fear, and it is you who instills in me this inclination to write it out, you who inspires my songs, my lament and my celebration. Let your Spirit inspire me again,…
Amy Secrist 