Prayer Offered for January 9, 2020

O my friend,

take heart.

The work of repair

is aching

in its slowness

and beautiful in

the inches by which

it will arrive.

Do not pray to be patient

but to persist.

Ask for the endurance

that helps us learn

to breathe

in the midst of fear,

to love

in the presence

of sorrow,

to dream

within the rending

of the world that might

be made.

Loving God of mercy and compassion, help us to be patient with the slowness of our processes.  May we endure the judgments and lack of support that that we sometimes encounter as we seek to bring wholeness and harmony to our world.—AMEN.