Lord, You have always givenbread for the coming day;
and though I am poor,
today I believe.
Lord, You have always given
strength for the coming day;
and though I am weak,
today I believe.
Lord, You have always given
peace for the coming day;
and though of anxious heart,
today I believe.
Lord, You have always kept
me safe in trials;
and now, tried as I am,
today I believe.
Lord, You have always marked
the road for the coming day;
and though it may be hidden,
today I believe.
Lord, You have always lightened
this darkness of mine;
and though the night is here,
today I believe.
Lord, You have always spoken
when time was ripe;
and though you be silent now,
today I believe.
From Evening Prayer, the Northumbria Community
4 comments:
Ah. Just the words that were needed. Thank you!
And thanks for the prayers for Elijah. He's doing so much better today, and will get better every day, I think.
I love their prayers and thoughts.
How timely this prayer is for me!
Please keep me in prayers, sisters, as I struggle with a difficult parishioner who needs my love and support just when he is least lovable... also TO who is struggling with various adolescent issues...
I will continue to keep Elijah in prayer.
This Bread I Break
This bread I break was once the oat,
This wine upon a foreign tree
Plunged in its fruit;
Man in the day or wind at night
Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.
Once in this wine the summer blood
Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine,
Once in this bread
The oat was merry in the wind;
Man broke the sun, pulled the wind down.
This flesh you break, this blood you let
Make desolation in the vein,
Were oat and grape
Born of the sensual root and sap;
My wine you drink, my bread you snap.
—Dylan Thomas
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