NIGHT PRAYER: Thursday 8/24

Nothing in the world, Lord
    is hidden from your sight...

You see all things,
    visible and invisible:

        nothing escapes your gaze...

Your vision is eternal:
    you see the past, present and future,

        all at a glance and in the same moment...

All this I know - and believe - 

    and yet, Lord, even at my age,

I'm still playing hide and seek,

    hoping to keep to myself

        what you saw in me

            long before I was born...

 

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So, give me the courage
    to share in prayer

something I've tried to hide from you

    and from others 

        - and from myself...

As I share what I've hidden, open my heart 

    to your wisdom, your counsel and mercy;

and help me see - as you see, Lord -

    what you love, accept and heal in me,

        you who see and know me - just as I am...

 

Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake

    and watch over me while I sleep

that awake, I might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

 

Amen.

 

O God, You Search Me by Bernadette Farrell

 

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O God, you search me and you know me. 

All my thoughts lie open to your gaze. 

When I walk or lie down you are before me: 

Ever the maker and keeper of my days. 

 

You know my resting and my rising. 

You discern my purpose from afar, 

and with love everlasting you besiege me: 

In every moment of life or death, you are. 

 

Before a word is on my tongue, Lord, 

you have known its meaning through and through. 

You are with me beyond my understanding: 

God of my present, my past and future, too. 

 

Although your Spirit is upon me, 

still I search for shelter from your light. 

There is nowhere on earth I can escape you: 

Even the darkness is radiant in your sight. 

 

For you created me and shaped me, 

gave me life within my mother’s womb. 

For the wonder of who I am I praise you: 

Safe in your hands, all creation is made new

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