Prayers for Healing
“Trust in God at all times, O people;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us.”
--A call to faith, Psalm 62:8
Today, May Sarton offers some words of wisdom worthy of your thought and meditation. While we yearn for happy, peaceful times, May’s prayer reminds us that compassionate souls emerge out of painful experiences.
“Pain is the great teacher.
I woke before dawn with this thought.
Joy and happiness are what we take and do not question.
They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being.
But, pain forces us to think, and to make connections,
to sort out what is what,
to discover what has been happening to cause it.
And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings
in a significant way,
whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.”
Today, as you encounter others in their pain or come face to face with your own pain, may your life and the lives of others be strengthened by the significance of your time together.
A prayer: Holy One, teach me to be present with others in their pain. Amen.
--Ben Keckler
08.18.11
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