prayer from today…

Catch us off guard today. Surprise us with some moment of beauty or pain, so that for at least a moment we may be startled into seeing that you are with us here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life we breathe.

 

Help us discover our true aspirations, the pangs we ignore, the longings we forget, the ideals we ought to aspire to.

God, intervene in our lives, let your will prevail in our affairs. 

Open a window to our souls, become the Lord of our being.

Adapted from the words of Frederick Beuchner and Abraham Joshua Heschel