Tag: prayer
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Living in Holy Terror
I thank lifeby livingby praying in stitches in the midst of evergreensaggravates- water This crippled world my every payer of me— of you
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Prayers and Miracles for a Daughter Passed On
When his daughter died he made a church of his pain, the only truth he believed— the truth of his grief.In that shrine, he could pray, must pray:“Lord, suffer me to know these wounds of which I am. Savor, ease this lonely creature.”“Everything must die in the beauty of your grace.For in that loss I…
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A Prayer for Beloved Mothers
Beloved, mother this day you will eat, in this body of trying, the bread of hope. Beloved, mother this day you will bathe, amidst this body of breaths, in the fragrance of rose water. Beloved, mother this day you will hear, inside this sounding body, the soft laughter of your children. Beloved, mother this night…
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Full Moon Prayer
The full moon veiled the ramshackle barn in the embrace of its shadow- a prayer for animals gone.
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The Musician
Inner torment plays his face. He prays that the music will come when he strums the guitar’s strings. The sun plays on his hands, serenades his face,whispers the sounds.
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Hymn for Our Past and Future
For my reversal and recovery, For my wife’s lost womb, For a future free of cancers, For the old brick house toppled in the wolf tornado, For the new cradle being raised on an ancient cry of earth, For the mothers who died never seeing their children wed, For rescued memories stuck on cardboard, For…