Most Merciful Sustainer of My Life:
Your love is the holy meaning of life.
Your love surges to bring all life into being and carries me into your promised beyond.
Your love heals broken hearts and mends fractured homes and nations.
Your love speaks in the middle of the night when I feel all alone.
Your love stays with me when no one else will.
Your love remembers when everyone forgets.
Your love gives third chances, again and again.
Your love sees a life of beauty when others only see emotional baggage.
For every marriage wandering.
For every child hurting.
For every friend alone.
For every spouse grieving.
For every wound healing.
For every heart longing.
For every soul passing on.
For every parent worrying.
For every teen questioning.
For every need seeking.
There is and shall be love.
In this Trinity of affirmation, love shall be.
God is love.
We come from God.
We return to God and in between we become love.
All things come and go. Love endures forever.
Amen.
-Peter Traben Haas, Centering Prayers: A One-Year Daily Companion for Going Deeper into the Love of God (Paraclete Press, 2013), p. 23-24
Thank you.