Any father with daughters spends a lot of time in prayer. I thought about this yesterday on Kathryn’s birthday, which found me at September Morn Lake high in the Beartooth Wilderness. In the 21st century once the child has managed to make it to 5 years old, they will probably live another 8 or 9 decades. This means that most of the lives of parents and children is spent with both as “adults” (not to overstate the maturity of either). Daughters become sisters. Personally, I like that a lot.
This prayer is from God and the People: Prayers for a Newer New Awakening. You can find it on Stakeholder Health (stakeholderhealth.org) or Amazon here.
Thank You God who never ceases to generate new life from shared love, new love from shared life, never wasted, always creating and
recreating. Thank You for life woven from broken threads that a lesser
god would waste.
Thank You for daughters and sons as they become sisters and brothers of their parents, teaching and tending us, as they once received. What a delight to be held by those who love us. Our daughters and sons teach us so.
Thank You for weaving in ways we could not know to hope.
A hundred, thousand, million eddies in the current that deserve names and
celebrations. Every one adding, rising up and laying down, old selves fallen away for the new. As surely as the river flows You draw us, too, shaping the channel for those who come later. Teaching and releasing until gradually we are eye to eye. Then loved into memory, a story beyond us, as sons and daughters become memories themselves.
Thank You for weaving in ways we could not know to hope.
Give us pause to wonder. One parent and one daughter, one son and one brother are as galaxies in motion. Entire fields of relationship, dancing as waves in the dark. You raise us to raise each other over and again.
Thank You for weaving in ways we could know to hope.
Give us the grace to release and shed the past. Just enough grace for the day we are in with those we are with. Just enough vision of the life flowing through and among us. Thank You for making us so woven in ways we could know to hope. Amen
This prayer is from God and the People: Prayers for a Newer New Awakening. You can find it on Stakeholder Health (stakeholderhealth.org) or Amazon here.
