We Dare to Ask

Happy New Year... Here is a poem I wanted to share with you,

a prayer from Ted Loder...

We ask only a few things more, O God,

a few small, mustard – seed size, faithful, saving things:

to walk with you in each moment

without plotting for tomorrow,

and so to really consider the birds of the air,

the lilies of the field

and find the treasures hidden

in the round of the daily;

to learn by leaning in to your Spirit

to be present to others without preoccupation,

to engage without having to win,

to disagree without being judgmental,

to accept outcomes without despair

to succeed or fail without misplacing hope,

to tune to the bracing hum of the stars,

to fathom enough

without dismissing fathomless mystery

of your creation, our brothers and sisters,

and the grace and mercy and power

of your embrace that holds close,

each small one of us,

and everything all together;

in Jesus’s name,

Amen

There is wisdom here.....

Always,

Bill