Lent, day 19

[dreamflower]

A Prayer for Compassion

Lord God,
We confess:
our lifestyles are too busy,
our focus self-centered,
and our world is consumed
with fear, greed, and pride.
Sometimes, Lord, we react
to the pains of others
with a flippant "who cares?"

Yet, in our more receptive times,
when Your Voice calls to
our innermost beings,
We know with absolute certainty two things
we desperately need:
To be loved…and to love.

Hear us, Lord,
grateful, thankful to experience occasional
breakthrough moments of unconditional love.

Be with those whose hearts are broken,
demoralized by life's blows;
those who mirror to us that unfairness and suffering
is not lightened by pat answers or avoidance,
but is made bearable
because of fellow travelers
who truly do care,
and show it.

Walk with us, God.
Our trek is not always easy,
our vision shortsighted, our love often hidden.
May we seek the deeper places
where our compassion, our joy reflect
You, the God who is Love.
Amen

-Virgil Fry

We love, because He first loved us. (I John 4:19, NIV)
Don't be interested only in your own life, but be interested in the lives of other people, too. (Phil 2:4 EVD

Comments

for god who is love

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

THE world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours... Wordsworth.

Do you like Matthew Arnold? - (1822-1888)...

But often in the world's most crowded streets
but often, in the din of strife (repeats)
there rises an unspeakable desire
after the knowledge of our buried life
a thirst to spend our fire and restless (strife)
in tracking out our true, original course; - (sic mine)

Re: for god who is love

[dreamflower]

Thank you.

[shirebound]

That's a beautiful way to start the day.

[dreamflower]

:)

I am so glad that I am doing this again, this year.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this. I've just shared it with a friend whose husband is seriously ill.

[dreamflower]

I do hope that it helped her.