Pause for Prayer: SATURDAY 6/28

I have a list, Lord:

    war,

    political hostility,

    ugly public discourse,

    lies upon lies upon lies,

    greed, graft and corruption,

    the brutal and cruel treatment

       of human beings,

    contempt for the poor...

 

I have a list, Lord, 

    of so many reasons

    to ignore and miss the glory,

    the warmth and beauty,

    the sweaty, seductive summer

    who wants so much 

    to have her way with us

    in a shady grove

    you've provided,

    a gift of your pure grace...

 

I can't let go the list, Lord,

I can't deny, can't pretend away

    the wounds on your body,

    our body,

the wounds you gently tend

    with sweet anointings

    of your Spirit

    in a hidden leafy grove 

    where summer, like a siren,

    warmly bids us come...

 

Amen. 

 

Somehow, the sounds in the first movement of Vivaldi's Summer capture the moods in my prayer here today...

 

Vivaldi: 

Concerto No. 2 in G minor,  

Op. 8, RV 315, “Summer” 

Allegro non molto 

 

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