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.

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Amen