june eighth . two thousand nine
I pray for forgiveness tonight, I pray that you will forgive yourselves and that we will forgive one another, I pray that those you have hurt will not be that hurt, I pray that your own hurts will be forgiven. I pray for a sleep of healing.
I pray that you are not broken, and I pray that I have not broken you. I pray for the thousand pieces of you, the ones that shard, break, blast your friends and those who you do not consider friends, I pray I will help you stitch back together. I pray that, at my knee, you will learn careful and artful stitches, to bring together, not to rend asunder.
I pray for atonement, I pray that I will be a better mother, a better person, spouse, friend, servant of mankind. I pray for tomorrow, that we will wake with wide eyes and open hearts, that we will caretake this little plot of land that is ours, that we will harvest and we will sow, that we will look around us and discover the beauty that is here, right here, in leaf, blossom, brother, husband, mother.
I pray that I will say what needs to be said, and I pray that my words will be gentle and kind. I pray that all of us will have time in the space between feeling and saying to think, to consider, to choose wisely, choose lovingly.
Let us all love; let us all feel loved.