This short poem could well be a fine poem for prayer in this holy season of Lent.
A Prayer to Own Your Beauty
O God
help me
to believe
the truth about myself
no matter
how beautiful it is!
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-by Macrina Wiederkehr
This is not narcissism. This is what happens when the prayer, fasting and charitable works of Lent do what they should and help us stand more honestly before God (in whose image each of us is made) and our neighbor.
One of the realities we find most difficult to accept is how beautiful we are in God's eyes: how beloved is each of us in God's heart...
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars that you set in place--
What are humans that you are mindful of them,
mere mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them little less than a god,
crowned them with glory and honor
You have given them rule over the works of your hands,
put all things at their feet...
- Psalm 8
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