Prayer Offered for June 27, 2023

Let us consider the blessings of our humanness as we ponder Rumi’s poem, “The Guest House.”

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they are a crowd of sorrows

who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture,

still, treat each guest honorably.

[They] may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The [negative] thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes

because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Loving God, help us to be alert for those unexpected visitors of negativity; may their appearance not cause us to lose our composure and our gracious desire to bring peace and love to our world.—AMEN.

Sr. Michelle Gorman, RSM
Prayer Date
06/27/2023