Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Tuesday Prayer for 12/27/16: What is done is done.

Dear God:

The hope candle burned down, today.
Peace will be next then joy then love.
Eventually, even the white wax from the Christ candle
will cool
And the purple, white and pink will all be cold to the touch.
The hope, peace, joy, love and Christ candles will all
go
dark.

It is tempting to make this into something more important than it is but
This is what candles do.

This year passes away
Like all the others before it.
Better than some,
Worse than others.
It passes away.
It passes away.

It is tempting to make this into something more important than it is but
This is what years do.

There will be those we will get to know and
Those that we will miss.
There will be those we know who were born and
Those who have died.
There will be those who were healed and
Those who suffered.
There will be those set free and
Those imprisoned.
There will be ways we will succeed and
Ways we will fail.

It is tempting to make this into something less important than it is but
This is what we do.
This is what we do.
This is what we do.
It is important.
It is living.
It is what we do.
It is what we do.
It is what we do.

Amen.

(Read the article about this picture at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/31/photo-of-101-year-old-woman-with-baby-response_n_6948860.html)


Amen