Closing my eyes
My prayer rises...
Protect us from ourselves.
Let us remember that we are born whole
Our encounters leave us wanting
Feeling emptied
Lacking
Needing to be filled.
With each break
Demanding us to remember
We move away instead
Seeking something or someone to close the hole.
Though healing is possible within us.
So much hurt and pain
We are blinded.
Teach us
How to come back
How to know when
And that its safe to return.
That our wholeness is not lost
Or gone
Just covered.
Let us let go of control we never had
And embrace the freedom of forgiveness.
Thank you for grace
As we continue to make daily adjustments.
And for the blessing of opening our eyes each morning.
Thank you for never leaving
Even when we walk away
Then return when it gets to be too much of a burden.
Lift us up!
Out of the mud of our perception
And into the knowledge that we can rise.
As I rest
Help me now to maintain the wonder of this becoming
As I open my eyes
And go back to the life outside me.
Thank you for everything
Again and again
And for now, I say
Amen.