Daily Signet

O Beloved Spirit,
In the gap between how we find ourselves
and how we want to be found;
in the gap of how we find others to be
and how we would want them to be;
in the gap of the way things are
and how we would choose them to be;
be love in us, be love through us,
belove us, belove us, belove us. 

In the disappointment of how things turned out
instead of how we had envisioned them;
in the disappointment of what we had wanted to accomplish
instead of what we have accomplished so far;
in the disappointment of being disappointed,
instead of the hopefulness we had so hoped in;
be love in us, be love through us,
belove us, belove us, belove us. 

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It is not a clean and perfected dance in which we find ourselves.
Our steps falter. We fall out of step. We lose the rhythm.
It is not a clean and perfected dance in which we find ourselves.
We don’t always hear the strains or recognize the beat.
It is not a clean and perfected dance in which we find ourselves.
We are self-conscious, self-critical, self-awkward;
be love in us, be love through us,
belove us, belove us, belove us. 

O Beloved Spirit, we seek grace
in this dance in which we find ourselves:
that we may delight in the surprise of breaking past the impossible,
that we may joy in the movement that takes us out of the expected,
that we may find ecstasy in becoming the music,
if only for a moment,
be grace in us, be grace through us,
be-grace us, be-grace us, be-grace us. 
Amen 

From Prayers on the Road Home, Benjamin Martin

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