Note: shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel
“For you must realize that earth unfolds its properties and powers in union with Heaven aloft above us, and there is one Heart, one Being, one Will, one God, all in all.” -German mystic, Jacob Boehme
Lent invites introspection and an opportunity to self examine; to make amends with ourselves and others. Everything happens in relationship.
What I long for is respite from the frenetic chaos of lightening speed change. Perhaps this is true for you too? Can we pause long enough to read this prayer and find a few moments of stillness with a listening heart… what needs tending in your life?
Lord of laughter, as of tears,
shake me awake
and teach me to laugh at myself,
at my black-draped solemnity,
over my petty preoccupation with success and failure,
through all the hurt and adversity
until my laughter lures me deep
beneath the terrors without names,
beneath the questions without answers,
beneath the pain without relief,
lures me deep
to the love in me unused,
to the strength unspent,
to the courage untapped,
to the dream unrisked,
to the beauty unexpressed,
all the way down
to the inescapable bottom,
to the awareness that I must get on
with being who I am
as fully as I can,
as unflinchingly as I can,
as accurately as I can,
which is to say,
as gracefully
as powerfully,
as faithfully
as you have created me to be.
By Ted Loder Excerpt from "Guerrillas of Grace, Prayers for the Battle"
Photo: girl meditating Oct 2016, Burlington Vermont by ~liz
Photo:best friends reconnecting on our journey through life; New York by Rachel Mezo
Journal of Sacred Work 
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