7/1/23

Pause for Prayer: SATURDAY 7/1


It's a long weekend, Lord,
    stretching the usual break 
        right out there through Tuesday...

For many, this is an extra,
    a treat, an added calendrical twofer
but for others, Lord, 
    a long weekend's just a prolongation
         of what every weekend brings:
    time off with little money, 
        no extras, no place to go;
    more time alone for some
        while others get together;
    more time to think and overthink
       what worries mind and heart;
    more time for those who have no job
        from which to have time off;
    more time behind a prison's wall
        where time seems not to move;
     the slow, and even slower now,
        passing of the hours
    for the sick who live with pain
        and for those who grieve a loss;
    for those who wish the time would come
        for their time to be done;
    and for those who find a holiday
            more burden than a joy...
 
If that's the long weekend for me:
    an untimely extension,
    an unwelcome prolongation 
        of too much time already on my hands;
then wind up my soul's clock, Lord,
    and fill my hours and minutes
with healing thoughts, 
    good things to do,
          small joys to be discovered;
with the comfort of your Spirit
    anointing every moment,
        running through my day and night;
with the trust I need and pray for 
    to spend and live with grace
        all the time that's mine today...
 
But if the weekend is for me, Lord,
    a longed for joy and respite
then nudge, stir and move me
    to share and spend my time
with those whose long and empty days 
    might well be blessed and filled
        with the time that's mine to spare...

Amen.


  

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