NIGHT PRAYER: Thursday 9/25

Lord,

I need love 

- and I need to be loved...

 

I need to be loved by those I love

and I need to love those who don't love me...

 

I need to be loved unconditionally

and I need to love others with no strings attached...

 

I need to be loved by those I've hurt

and I need to love those who've offended me...

 

I need to open my heart in love,

and to enter hearts who welcome me in... 

 

I need to love for the sake of others,

loving my neighbor more than myself...

 

I need to love when I don't feel like loving

- as others love me, in season and out...

I need to love whom I deem unlovable

- as I am loved when I don't love myself...

 

I need to be loved so I'll know what love offers

and I need to love to learn what love asks...

I need to be loved that I might be forgiven

and I need to forgive if I hope to know love...

 

I need to be loved to know who I am,

to become the person I'm made to be...

Lord, I need to love you if I want to know you

and to know your love if I'm to know myself...

 

I need to love when love comes at a price, Lord,

as you loved me at the cost of your life...

 

You are love and if I live in love, I will live in you,

and you, O Lord, will live in me... 

Hold and protect me in your loving arms, Lord,

while I'm awake and while I'm asleep,

that awake, I might keep watch with you

and asleep, rest in your love and peace...

Amen.

Tonight's song is unusual: 

    its lyrics consist of one word - oft' repeated!

I'm offering tonight's music in two forms:

    1) an audio widget

    2) the same audio along with a video moving visually through

        the score. (Musicians -and others- will find this interesting.)

 

Love by Michael Englehardt

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