Tag: prayer
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A Candle Prayer
Come comfort this hurried heart with love and kindness this tired heart with quick forgiveness this beating heart with solid restfulness; uncover the pricelessness beneath these worthless days beneath these screams and shouts; show me green shoots sprouting through this drenched earth, massive oaks and maples, beech trees popping newborn leaves into this rain-soaked air. I…
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Seed to the Pomegranate Fruit
I am packed in, tight. Hundreds of red seeds surround. Yet I am alone.
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A Prayer for Right-Seeing
There are times it requires the entire will, every muscle fiber, each heart-string, to see those squashed banana pieces as jewels, the bread crumbs as confetti, the demands as opportunities for love. There are times I feel the heart reaching, insisting, pulling on the harness of right-seeing, yoking these phyical moments to the ever-lasting instant.…
Amy Secrist 