NIGHT PRAYER: Tuesday 1/13

Our vision, Lord, is seriously impaired...

We're near-sighted,

   focused on what's at hand,

   failing to see the larger picture...

With minds clouded by fear and doubt

   we fail to see clearly, we miss boundaries,

   we trip over our own feet...

 

We are color blind, failing to see

   the shades, the depths and the beauty

   in every color, hue and tone...

We turn away from, we ignore, we deny

   we blind ourselves to difference and diversity,

   to new ideas and other points of view...

We close our eyes to the truth 

    staring us in the face,

to wisdom's unrelenting glow, 

    and to you, Lord:

       the light no darkness overcomes...

 

I'm frightened by the riots and violence, Lord,

    but even more by our vision,

        so seriously impaired... 

As the saying goes:

  there are none so blind

   as those who will not see...

 

If we cannot see, 

if we don't see clearly,

if we refuse to seek and see the truth

if we close our eyes to your light, Lord,

- then we doom ourselves to a darkness 

    overwhelming and consuming...

Open our eyes that we might see, Lord:

open our eyes to peer into 

    the depths of your wisdom and truth; 

open our eyes to see beyond

   our needs, our want and desires;

open our eyes to see you 

   in the faces of all we meet and know;

sharpen our vision

   to help us see as you see, Lord;

clear our vision 

    of all worry, doubts and fears;

correct our vision

   when we refuse to see

      and accept what's right before us;

help us see the depth and beauty                                                                                                    of every color and shade;
open our eyes to your glory, 

   around us, among us and within us...

Protect us, Lord, 

   in the dark of night and the light of day

that awake, we might keep watch for you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

Be Thou My Vision

   performed by The Martins 

 

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Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart

naught be all else to me, save that thou art

Thou my best thought by day or by night

waking or sleeping, thy presence my light

 

Be thou my vision and thou my true word

I ever with thee and thou with me Lord

Thou and thou only, first in my heart

great God of heaven, my treasure thou art

 

Great God of heaven, my victory won,

may I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's Son

Heart of my own heart, whatever befall

still be my vision, O Ruler of all

still be my vision, O Ruler of all

 

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