Sunday, September 21, 2008

A Prayer for You (and for me).

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.

May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.

May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.

May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.

Amen.

A Fransciscan Blessing

4 comments:

Patti said...

:) i love ya! thanks for posting that....

Conner Cutoff said...

loving all the latest post shell-

jack says hello and sends hugs!

Mip said...

aw, someone just sent me that!

somewhat relatedly, i decided I am going to buy the book of common prayer...i wonder why it isn't used more often.

just my random thought of the day :)

shellyeve said...

i like your random thoughts melinda... :)


Hi Jack! :)


love you too patti!