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Gather Me To Be With You
O God, gather me now to be with you as you are with me:
Soothe my tiredness;
quiet my fretfulness;
curb my aimlessness;
receive my compulsiveness;
let me rest easy for a moment.
O Lord, release me from the fears and guilt which grip me so tightly,
from the expectations and opinions which I so tightly grip,
that I may be open to receiving,
to learning something refreshingly different.
O God, gather me to be with you as you are with me.
Forgive me for claiming so much for myself
that I leave no room for gratitude;
for confusing exercises in self-importance
with acceptance of self-worth;
for complaining so much of my burdens that I become a burden;
for competing against others so insidiously
that I stifle celebrating them and receiving your blessing
through their gifts.
O God, gather me to be with you as you are with me.
Keep me in touch with myself,
with my needs,
my anxieties,
my angers,
my pains,
my corruptions,
that I may claim them as my own
rather than blame them on someone else.
O Lord, deepen my wounds into wisdom,
shape my weakness into compassion;
gentle my envy into enjoyment,
my fear into trust,
my guilt into honesty,
my accusing finger into tickling ones.
O God, gather me to be with you as you are with me.
- Ted Loder in Guerrillas of Grace
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