I liked this perspective on trying to let go and send peace to situations that I can not understand.-Michele
| DEEPER IN PRAYER, AND QUIETER |
| April 18, 2007 |
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Transfixed as we still are by the massacre
of 32 people at Virginia
Tech, we do not lose sight of the fact that
there is more every day: 80
people perished in one car-bombing in Baghdad
this morning, with dozens more wounded.
Death came calling this week, close to home,
but it's a regular visitor in a world at war.
These are the times to go deeper and
deeper in prayer.
So many people
are involved in so many ways, and there isn't
one who is not a child of
God, not one to whom we are not
called to join ourselves in prayer.
Because it can be so hard to pray
for someone who wishes me harm,
I have learned to allow God to give
me that kind of prayer as the gift it can
only be. I don't have what it takes
to pray for my enemy, one of the
many ways in which I can tell I'm not
finished evolving.
That prayer must come to
me from God. I can only step back
from the whirlpool of my horror and
fear and present the one for whom
I cannot pray to God. I lack the
power to do more.
But I must do that much.
Not for us, the prim refusal to engage the
enemy in prayer.
It is not for us to turn away --
we only compound the
sum of the world's enmity if we do that.
I can't let my pain and anger
keep me away, even if I know myself
to be able to overcome it under my
own steam.
And so I speak the name of the
one whose motives I cannot understand,
will never understand, the one
whose sorrow is so enormous that
my heart buckles under its weight.
I only speak the name, and
then I let God take it from there. | |
| Copyright © 2007 Barbara Crafton |
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