Prayer for Desert-days.
Prayer for Desert-days (informed by Psalm 112)
One of Nurture. Travelers' Guide. Help us tap into empowering Wisdom and eternal Hope. Enrich our minds, warm our hearts, strengthen of souls.
From the beginning, evolving creation has stood in awe, having experienced your presence. Generations survived and flourished because of your being - being for us, cosmos-willed-alive. Story upon story of mutual love have been accompanied by promise. In right relationship with you and other, born of humility and grounded in all beings' dignity, delivers a vision of peace that continues to be the faithful dream into which we grow.
When the darkest, or perhaps, deepest moments of our humanity we have felt solitude and heat of the desert, in retrospect, your presence was shade and direction. Do this again and again, while reminding us that you take no prescribed form. And, as you have been with us, let us be with others, per-forming grace.
Teach us to nurture. Direct us in guiding. May we be wise in becoming. Amen.
R. Christian Seaver. St Paul, MN.