Pause for Prayer: FRIDAY 9/22

It's been said, Lord, 
that your first language is
silence...

If that's the truth

(and I believe it is!)

it's no wonder

I sometimes have trouble hearing you...

Plus, there's too much, so much noise 

in my life,

in my mind and thoughts,

in my heart and soul:

too many sounds competing for my attention

and distracting me

from the silent, peaceful sound

of your presence and your word...

 

So I'm praying, Lord
for some silence in my day:

    a time and place set apart
    just to be quiet,
    to listen for your breath, 

    for a whispered word
    to break the silence in my soul,

    to fill me with your presence

    and calm my anxious thought
    and to settle me with peace...

(Take some time here

   just to sit in the silence, to sit in the silence,

        to let the silence enter you...)

 

Quiet my heart, Lord,

til the only sound I hear

is the beating of my heart,

the heart you've made your home,

your dwelling place with in me...

Silence my world, Lord:

    quiet my soul:

    tame my anxiety,

    calm my fears,

    temper my passions,

    compose my mixed emotions

    ease my burdened heart

and then 

    soothe,

    soften, 

    mend,

    heal,

    and drench my heart in mercy

making peace

'tween my heart, Lord and yours

in a silence broken only

by your whispered word of peace

and my heart's word of thanks...

Amen.

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