How do I let go of
DISGUST
ANGER
RAGE
How do I speak
LOVE
HOPE
COMPASSION
PEACE
How do I pray?
Heartsickness and despair
have bound my tongue.
Dread and powerlessness
constrict my heart.
Revenge whispers its
bitter nothings in my ear.
Hatred fills me
I know how tightly
I am caught in the
Tempter’s snare
How do I pray?
All I have is trust
God speaks tears’ language
God transforms rage into TENDERNESS
dread into COURAGE
hate into HOPE
God hears my faltering
feeble attempts
holds me close
releases me from the enemy that is
me
sends me out to LOVE
as I have been LOVED
not because I feel it, but because
LOVE is LIVED.
Prayer is not limited to bended knee.
Sometimes prayer is in the walking.
