7/9/25

NIGHT PRAYER: Wednesday 7/9

I was watching a foreign film, Lord, 
when the thought crossed my mind:
   you never have need of subtitles...
 
You're fluent in every language there is:
no dialect is beyond your ken,
no jargon or idiom trips you up,
no regional accent confuses your ear,
all of it's in your vernacular,
every human tongue is native to you...

And the same holds true in the animal world
with its sounds and calls and songs:
    every hoot, howl, growl and grunt,
    every bark, bleat, warble and gobble
    every moo, meow, bellow and bray, 
yes, every last sound, a prayer to your ear, 
   understood, discerned and welcomed...
    
And then, Lord, there's me:
you discern every sound I utter,
    every word, phrase, sigh or cry,
    every moan, groan, laugh and giggle,
    all my open weeping and silent tears 
    my long harangues and my silence, too...

You understand the prayer in my heart
even when I'm not sure
what I want or need to pray for...

You hear my voice when it's silent,
when I've no words to speak,
no songs to sing, no sounds to make...  

You have no need for subtitles, Lord,
you understand
    all the words I speak,
    my heart's expression,
    my emotions' inflection,
    my clumsy rhetoric,
    my soul's stumbling diction
    - and my silence when that's all there is...
 
You have no need for subtitles, Lord,
you hear and know, intuit and understand,
you really get every word I speak
and all I want and mean to say
even when words fail to come 
to mind, to my heart, to my lips...
 
For always listening, always hearing
and always understanding me,
I praise and thank you, Lord...

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. 
 
God Who Understands by Henry Roe
 
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