How Do I Pray?

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.