Thursday, June 15, 2023

Dear God,

When we open ourselves to pray for others, we open a part of ourselves that is closed off at other times.  
We take inside the hurts of others, their sufferings, concerns and fears.  When we pray for strangers on the other side of the world, it is like we transport them into our own heart and mind.  There we surround them with love and compassion as we utter their needs before you.  In that moment it is as if you, they and I are one held in love and mercy.

You alone, O God, open the human heart to others and their needs.  You stretch us to care and to love.  You invite us to pray, to "be with" and to offer ourselves to hurting souls.  Your divine power causes something to stir within us.  You how us the way to be one with the world, one with love, one with compassion.

O God,

thank you

for stirring

within my

own heart.

Help me

love others.

Open all

to your

empowering and

loving spirit.

Yours, Andrea