NIGHT PRAYER: Friday 2/24



On the Fridays of Lent, Night Prayer will look at different ways of understand-ing prayer and differing ways of praying.  Tonight, just a few things we should remember about prayer and how many human activities and attitudes are, at their core, moments of prayer…

Some things I need to remember tonight…

Just to pause in your presence
   in a moment of silence:

      this is a prayer…
To sit in the dark
   and ask where you are:
      this is a prayer…


To rest in the quiet
   and remember you’re near:
      this is a prayer…


To sit in the stillness,
   and ponder your mystery:
      this is a prayer…

To wait for God
   and to wait some more:
      this is a prayer…
To question God
   in faith and in doubt:
       this is a prayer…


To take a deep breath
   and inhale your peace:
      this is a prayer…


To hear in my heartbeat,
   the pulse of your presence:
      this is a prayer…


To close my eyes
   and open my heart:
      this is a prayer…

To gaze on the Cross
   to see how I am loved:
      this is a prayer…
To open my heart
   just to empty it out:
      this is a prayer…


To open my hands
   and wait to be filled:
      this is a prayer… 

To know a moment 
    when I know I am loved:
        this is a prayer…
To humbly mumble
   what my soul longs to say:
      this is a prayer… 
To give of myself
    out of love for another:
        this is a prayer…
To trust and to hope
    that all shall be well:
        this is a prayer…
To do what is just
    for the sake of truth:
        this is a prayer…
To honor what lives
    as divine and holy:
        this is a prayer…
To uncover joy
    in the heart of my sorrow:
        this is a prayer…
To struggle to find
   even one word to say:
      this is a prayer…
To be grateful, in awe,
    of beauty around me:
        this is a prayer… 
To dance and to sing
    in the presence of death:
        this is a prayer…
To cry my heart out
    in grief and loss:
        this is a prayer…
To speak not a word
   and hear only the silence:
      this is a prayer…
To trust that my silence
   is God’s language, too:
      this is a prayer…
To hear a word
    that touches my soul:
        this is a prayer…
To hear in the quiet
  the whisper of grace:
      this is a prayer…
To open my heart, Lord,
   to speak but your name…
      this is a prayer…
Be there for me, Lord, when I come to pray
   and answer my prayer with peaceful dreams
that awake, I might keep watch with you
   and asleep, rest in your peace…
 

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