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Constant Movement of Life

Constant Movement of Life

January 21, 2025 Prayer, Spirituality No Comments

Constant Movement of life,

Breath of ever-changing being,

Holy One, forming and transforming continually—

This dancing world is Your Body,

This evolving world is Your being flung forth;

Let me trust the changing of my own life,

For I have become a stranger in a strange land.

In the disappearance of the familiar

          Let me recognize the mystery of Your transforming dance;

In the preponderance of the untried

         Let me accept the challenge of your unfolding newness;

In the absence of old friends

         Let me discover the presence of the human circle;

              

In the landscape of the strange

          Let me open to the wonder of earth.

Your being in me turns in a kaleidoscope of brilliance

And darkness opens into light that dazzles then dims.

Everything given, give me courage to let go,

Then hold me safe in the emptiness,

As the changing suffuses my life

And brings me forth

New.


Reference: Christin Lore Weber, Blessings: A WomanChrist Reflection on the Beatitudes, Harper & Row Publishers, San Francisco, 1989, pp. 13-14. Used with permission.

Image 1: Randy Robertson, His Fingerprints, CC BY 2.0, flickr.com, April 4, 2008.

Image 2: Andrew Hill, M 015, CC BY-ND 2.0, flickr.com, December 20, 2010.

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